The room was dark, no light in or outThe sound of silence pervaded throughAcross the darkness around meas it blanketed me within I cover myself in a blanket for warmthI ensure that the door is lockedThere’s something I want to dobut I can’t let anyone see me I bring a box of tissues by my […]

I locked myself in the bathroomsubmerged half my body in the tubwater slowly dripping from the tapplop… plop… plop… plop… plop the room was dark, lights turned offmy legs were pruned, submerged for so longthe water became coldit was hot when it started I looked at palm, skin prunedI can see the cut I madethe […]

My heroes are not awesomethey are great at what they doMy heroes are not awesomethey have their own flawsEach of my hero stood for somethingbut they only stood for thatI cannot idolize thembecause there’s a dimensionof theirs I do not want at allthe dark side of my heroes –Surya T

Time moves without our consentIt doesn’t respect our plansIt doesn’t respect our wishes and dreamsIt doesn’t respect us at all –Surya T

I bring it close to my lipsawaiting and anticipating the pleasureI suck in with all my mightthe flavored air building insideI felt peace for a momentNothing mattered anymore; death nor deadlinesI feel this peace fading awayTime for another hitHow I loathed it once, the thoughtHow I loved to loathe the people tooI wrote essays and […]

On a night after a long, tired dayI wonder how I can pass my timeA run in the park, a session at the gyma dinner in a restaurant or just nothing There’s enough time to do a lotI could go for a long runget a good workout session in the gymand cook my meal, a […]

It’s merely an email awayAll that I wantAll that I worked forFor the last few years I read the mail once moreFor the hundredth timeEditing it over and over againIt has to be perfect This was the confirmation mailThe one that cemented my dreamsThe final leg of the journeyThe last 3 steps to the destination […]

This was a day that doesn’t passThe clock seems frozen in its placeI feel like doing nothing at alland it’s eating me from the inside The dumbbell lay in front, motionlessthe songs kept playing in my earIt’s been over 10 minutes nowsince I finished my last set I look at myself in the gym mirrorI […]

It is a race against timeeach moment and each dayfrom the time the clock strikes 12to the time the clock strikes midnight Running are the sands of timeone second per secondthe deadline is fast approachingI must move quickly Midnight’s call s close byI can hear the moment approachTick tock… tick tock… tick tockThe moment is […]

I wish I knew you, grandmathat we could have a chance to meeta change to get to know each otherbut life’s ways are mysterious so many words people use to describegenerous, motherly, affectionateand many other abstract wordsand the stories I can only hear they told me about the food you madefor a lot of people […]