Salt in the tears.

29th jan

11:58 pm

she stood poised like

a porcelain statue

even the dark clouds

gathered to rage

as if somehow

conducting her emotions

the wind tore through the place

cold fingers slapping away

just as she started

to open her mouth

the dog at her feet wailed

a mournful sound

her dark eyes swam

in a pool full of tears,

blinding her for

few precious seconds.

as her long lash's

swept down

a fat droplet fell

on her cheek

thinking it was

starting to rain

her hand moved

to flick it away

maybe it was the

glint of light

maybe it was a memory

that made her stop and reconsider.

she faltered

licked her dry lips

brought her tongue out

and tasted the salt

clinging on her fingertips.

she remembered his voice

"when someone tears ur heart out,

they put tears in ur eye's instead!"

how the salt in her tears mocked him.

noone saw her sad smile

noone saw her sob out

noone saw her pain

just as no one saw

the light that followed her

still she stood poised

like a porcelain statue

about to shatter

above her beloved's grave.

FEAR

26th jan

10:50 pm

Most people fear

One thing or another

Most are scared of

Either dark or darker

Some even are

Afraid of water

How that can be

As it is light too.

You are born in it

(Although) you can die it too

It can be as placid as a calm lake

Or it can be the raging sea

Almost all are afraid

Of frightening things

Height, depth

Insects, speed!

But some love what

Most live in fear of.

And are scared out of

Their wits of “ normal” things!

Living, caring

Loving, life!

They are afraid

Of forging bonds

Some fear their

Own homes.

Some even live

Fearing themselves.

Most are scared that they

don’t have a mind.

Some are scared

of their own mind

Most fear that

Adrenalin jolt

Some live only

For that rush

Most are in

Quest of love

Some run

Away from it

I love the light, But

I chose to live in dark.

Always thought

I belonged there.

what does that

tell about me?

Am I like the psychopath

That calls it self God?

untitled

I was born on 13^th September 1989

It has been twenty years that I have been alive…. Although I’ve got nothing special to show for it.

I have lived 20 times that this earth revolved around the sun, since that fateful morning.

I don’t know what throw of dice put my soul into that girls body.

But today I feel like that the girl is me and that I am the girl.

People in the family named me after an ancient philosopher who questioned everything around her, even the origin of things!

Was it meant to be that I was to be named gargi or ami curious as to the purpose of life just because I was named gargi?

Would my whole life be completely different if I was named something other than gargi…. Like what would I be like if I had been named…umm let me think….. aatrika? Or something like that.

Why was I born on 13^th sep why not 20^th feb?

Why was born my fathers daughter not someone else’s?

Why wasn’t I given a choice when and where I wanted to be born?

Why wasn’t I allowed to choose what my life could have been like?

Why hadn’t someone told me that there’s a catch to this life…. A big catch like dieing?

each second after we are born, we work our ass off so that we can survive in this big bad world...just to be able to LIVE! Though we know that ultimately each n every one of us ( even to the stinking king of the bacterial colony residing in my brothers toe nail) is gonna perish, die, sleep forever.
Its as if you are compelled to read a book(thriller) whose end you already know!
My Question being isn't it the right of the reader not to read the book, if he doesn't want to?
Shouldn't it be the right of the person living not to live his life to the end that awaits him?
Y wouldn't one want to die as soon as they are born when they know they'll eventually die.

What if I hadn’t wanted to be born?

If it’s supposed to be me born on 13^th sep 89 at 10.37 am…… if its all written out.

Whats the point of me living it… why don’t they (who ever they are!) tell me the epilogue to my story !

But what if its not, so in that case why was I born?

Whats the purpose of my life?

I must have been brought into existence for some purpose, to do a particular work!

How do I know what I was born to do? What if I don’t know and I am not able to knit my part of thread into the tapestry of life?

What if all this is great joke some super advanced genetic engineer played on me?

He could have made me as an experiment…. And fed a software into my brain about this universe? People all around me could be just figment of my imagination.

He could make me a clone and I wouldn’t even know the difference between us.

Is she me or am I her?

Who is who?

Do I have the soul or does she?

Does a thing called soul even exist? Where does it come from?

Did the engineer randomly flip through his available stock and fit me with one or is it nothing remotely like that?

Is the script of my life already written… if so who’s the director?

Or do I write it?

If I am to write it why do write it?

What is the purpose of me being alive?

What’s alive anyway? Who defines life and being alive?

If you asked me I’d tell you I am alive I breath, a perform a purpose, I ensure that a part of me still lives in the form of a child when I am no longer alive.

If you asked a rock the same question he’d tell you that he was alive too!

He is born from a larger rock, he does his function for a period of time, then he no longer is a rock. It gives birth to the soil!

If the rock is alive then aren’t I alive?

What does death mean anyway?... that you completed a life cycle?

…. That you aren’t alive anymore?

So what do you call a virus? Its never always alive never always dead.

Its none. Its both.

Well who do you think believes the truth, or they both do?

What if none of us knows the truth?

When you learn the truth about life, its as if you are a changed person altogether.

Your priorities change, your mindset changes. The aim and goal of your life would never be the same again.

Its a hard thing to know, and only a few do! That's why it becomes such a big responsibility that you treat this truth well. Because "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing! and should therefore be treated with great caution!"When i learned this what i felt, was thus written.

As I stop writing this the question that remain in my mind is this.

What am I finally?

No one?

Anyone?

Someone?

Which one?

Who am I?

- Gargi

Episodes in my life part I

well to start this off all i can say the most fascinating person i find in this whole world is ME!

if u think thats a bit self-centered... then u dont know me!

i am NOT a bit self-centered i am wholly self-centered.

what i suffer from is called Narcissistic personality disorder!

well not really

its what i think... but no one else... hahaha!

so this series is about me...

what i like

what i love

what i think

what i dont like

what i hate

what i was like

what i was never like!

in short me me me mee & more me!

today i was reminded a COOL incident.... when i was 8 n half months old i spoke my first word!..

just like in the Ad where the kid says Czechoslovakia!..

Dad had just told maa its raining...

and i said " PAPA BARISH(rain)!!!

and i so do love when it rains. all good things happen when it rains! well it does make me i little LUNATIC though.

just like a full moon does.

A Dream is...

Dream is warm blanket on a winter morn…

Dream is feeling…

Dream is steam rising from a cup of coffee…

Dream is being understood…

Dream is a smile from a total stranger…

Dream is skydiving…

Dream is fusion of wildflowers on the street…

Dream is a need for peace…

Dream is the waning sun on a beach…

Dream is a surprise gift…

Dream is a rainbow on a bad luck day…

Dream is freedom…

Dream is appreciation of a well cooked meal…

Dream is the forbidden thrill…

Dream is being 100…

Dream is an outlet to uncontrolled rage…

Dream is candlelight…

Dream is my finger griped by an infant…

Dream is a quest for the love…

Dream is the matching pair of earring…

Dream is laughing…

Dream is a hot soak after a hectic day…

Dream is a personal library…

Dream is Earth’s aroma after a slight drizzle…

Dream is a need for peace…

Dream is knowing how to drive a car…

Dream is owning a house...

Dream is rising sun from a mountain top…

Dream is a song that make’s me cry…

Dream is a letter in the post…

Dream is midnight snow…

Dream is stomach aching laugh…

Dream is a nasty fight with my best friend…

Dream is taking a stand…

Dream is the jangling of glass bangles…

Dream is leaving a mark…

Dream is dewdrops on grass…

Dream is popcorn in theater…

Dream is Indian forest service…

Dream is watching stars come out…

Dream is getting a book for gift…

Dream is studying 12 hours nonstop…

Dream is satisfaction…

Dream is friends who don’t use & throw me…

Dream is unflinching loyalty…

Dream is being able to write what I feel…

Dream is going to seven sisters…

Dream is a hand made card…

Dream is a kiss on head…

Dream is an A one camera…

Dream is the smell of Johnson’s baby powder…

Dream is a close circle of friends…

Dream is speaking truth no matter what…

Dream is the perfect picture taken…

Dream is writing what I think…

Dream is thinking my heart’s desire…

Dream is my very own mistake…

Dream is talking the whole night with my dad…

Dream is intuition…

Dream is the signing of non-nuclear treaty with my brother…

Dream is being cared for…

Dream is my mom’s unwavering support…

Dream is a vacation…

Dream is snuggling with my dadi…

Dream is being loved no matter what…

Dream is doing what I love…

Dream is being someone’s first & last thought…

Dream is independence…

Dream is finding that perfect partner…

Dream is thunderstorm…

Dream is a walk through the forest…

Dream is wanting…

Dream is being someone’s whole world…

Dream is the difference between lust and love…

Dream is cloud watching…

Dream is a laboriously made sketch…

Dream is dreaming…

Dream for me is a,

Blue colored butterfly

That flutters by in my mind…

Dream is…

Dream IS me!

My Dreams

Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

In the world I live, weaving dreams, envisioning your future even general wool gathering is an punishable offence.

No wonder I am punished so often!

I’ve had to hide my dreams (mundane every day sort too) from these people, who’d scoff or at the least laugh on my dreams.

Still I dare to dream!

When you steal something you know you have to pay back some way….

I still steal myself a handful of happiness, knowing that I’ll have to pay it back some way or the other.

Until a couple or years back I was afraid of laughing…. Never knowing when you’d have to cry. Now when I laugh I am afraid of paying for it.

So people who don’t want me to be happy or those cant see me happy, are so not welcome in my world!

Because there are already so many people here with their idea for my happiness, that they forget I am a human too. Not a robot that they can think for me, that they can weave dreams for me.

Its some thing that I am entitled to do.

Some people on one hand count me as an adult, able to take on responsibilities, but on other hand consider me unable to take decisions for my self, that I am entitled to make.

What if it’s a mistake, then it’ll be my mistake.

Oh I so want to break away from this limbo that I am in…..

Happiness is a costly dream! This I now know.

a series of poems that i wrote on my dreams......... continued.

The way You Are!

The way you move in your sleep

the way you look before you leap

the strange illusions that you keep

when u dont know that i'm noticing!

They way you talk to people you love

the way you stand out even in an crowded alcove

the way u smile your secret smile

when you dont know that i'm noticing!

The way you treasure whats my own

the way you always feel before dawn

the dreams you weave in your mind

when you dont know that i'm noticing!

The way your face shines in the candlelight

the way your eye's twinkle in night

the way your dimple winks at me

when you dont know that i'm noticing!

The way i like you look at me

the way i love what you feel for me

the way, just the way you are

when you dont know that i'm noticing!