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tired of not being there yet | whispered ramblings
These days, I am floating in a blurry bubble where Time is both suspended and still raging mercilessly inside & outside me. It has been hard for me to do anything much in the past two to three weeks. To my greatest misery. I feel as though I sat down on the couch one evening…
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coffee everywhere | whispered ramblings
It is way past 1AM, so I guess it is time for one of these. I’ve been trying to write, but nothing is coming out. Not that I don’t have anything to say ; I’ve been feeling so many things, thinking too many things — it has to go somewhere… But I feel like lately,…
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Breathe.
I have seen a lot of posts online lately that might have the intention to be inspirational, but are more likely to be making people feel bad. Basically, it goes like this: if you don’t “come out of this lockdown” with your side hustle started or online courses finished or with anything at all done,…
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mental health > productivity | whispered ramblings
I am writing this now in a much brighter mood than I was yesterday or the day before or the day before that or the day before that… In fact, I think it has been a few days since I have felt this lightweight and confident in my abilities to do things. I had a…
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A Light that Never Goes Out | poem
On some days, the sky gets heavy, And it tries oh so hard to bury me; On other days when I begin to feel free It is the ground that tries and swallow me. In the blink of an eye, the air in my lungs can turn to rocks And at that moment, as every…
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The forbidden word.
I was happy on my own, happy when I drowned; But my crooked feet took me to a land far from my own… The home which I found first chiselled away at my smile Until there was only ashes of happiness left; It stole all my colours, the bright ones and the darker ones, All…
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Broken record | a poem
I’m sorry, you’ve probably heard this one before But that’s just who I am: The storms in my mind run in a loop, My demons run in circles. And so I sing, the same old songs With the same old broken heart Pain comes in different shades And I am covered in all of them…