Inner Voice

Listen to your inner voice

And do what it tells you they all said.

How do I explain to them

There lives a whole society in my head.

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जब कि तुझ बिन नहीं कोई मौजूद

फिर ये हंगामा ऐ ख़ुदा क्या है..

Mirza Ghalib

The Unwritten Postcards

All those places we visited

Through our conversations

And all the beautiful sights we saw

Through our shared dreams

I have a colourful postcard

For every place we’ve never been

Hundreds of postcards

And a few dozen unwritten letters

All stored away safely

In the dusty drawers of my mind

I take them out sometimes

And breathe in that smell of yours

Which was never there

To give myself a reason to breathe

As I imagine us once again

At all those places we never went

And to envelop myself 

In a comforting, yet false relief

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