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the night grows on as minutes burn to hours I lie in my bed curled in the sheets that was once ours ♥ the matted off-white blanket the stains on the pillows remind me just how inconsolably incomplete I am ♥ like frozen ashes your smell from the covers slowly replaces the air in my…
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She was just a little girl incapable of hatred. She stood by the shore for hours each day hurling pebbles into the sea hitting the harsh waves. She wanted to hurt the sea like the sea had hurt her by prising away her father. She cried and cried and wanted the sea to cry too. For…
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If words could release the rues I’d write a 1000 page book If tears could beat the woes I’d cry out an ocean and more If pores of the skin could subsume the deluge I’d plug each pore with grit and soot If heart beats could override the hope I’d make the heart swell and…
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And ever so slowly I fell in love with you while watching you lost in worlds far away from me with the way you lose yourself in stories drifting to unreal places desiring fictional novices when you scribble hurriedly when you smile contently with the way you keep secrets buried in your heart only your eyes bearing testimony ♥…
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One fine evening I sat knitting. Shifting patterns and struggled trials, Doing and undoing the thing, over and over again… At times, I cursed beneath my breath, other times, I hurled them yarns and needles, right across the room… It was less a struggle with the needles, more with my heart and mind. The mind made it so…
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Fire burnt the logs through the night, and all that was left behind were the dying embers… the warmth of your touch sinking deep under my skin, you were the fire slowly turning me to ash… under the starless sky, we lay, counting beats that slowed down, like twigs turning to embers… ♥ as you traced your finger…
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Lived stranded, for far too long, accepting, all that came along until I met you! ♥ The moment I set eyes on you is the only moment I’ve lived in a long long time A nice warm feeling it was, and I was cold and numb this far, I had nowhere to go But now,…
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To me you’ll always be the colour black concealing a part of me So dark so mysterious so seductive so rebellious Engulfing me heart and whole like the darkness that surrounds There you are and yet not there cease to exist at the slightest touch An illusion a mirage in the depths of my heart all…
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He walked tip-toed To not wake her from her sleep ♥ Hardly did he know She was not sleeping but drifting away ♥ In the arms of who awaited her on the other side ~ ~ ~ Asha Seth
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In the middle of the night When I turn out the light I see your shadows Following me Anxious I push aside the curtains Peeking out the window Check over once thorough Finding nothing Less settles my restless heart Bringing myself out on the porch I tip-toe Behind the bushes, Beyond the fence Waiting for the shadows…
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On restless evenings, filled with utter hopelessness, Lying sprawled under the ceiling, weaving mindless fantasies. I wish for the hundredth time, that we crossed paths, someday. And also curious, that if we ever met again, what would it be like? A thousand memories lie scattered on the floor, From that day, when it all ended.…
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Asha Seth 