Dead End

Someone set me on a "path" 28 years ago. And never once, did I stop and take a look at the road ahead. For 27 years, I kept marching on like a good soldier without a second thought. That changed today. Today I was brought to a jarring halt by an invisible force. I stopped … Continue reading Dead End

The Missing Peace

I consider myself to be an ambitious person six days a week. I have goals, I chase success, I yearn for money. On the seventh day, I end up sitting and gazing blankly at my ceiling, wondering if my dreams are as empty as the whiteness I am staring at. I feel like a mist … Continue reading The Missing Peace

Letters Without an Address – 1

To, My Past 25/05/2020 Hello Su, It's been six years since I fell in love with a girl I barely knew. Six years since I had stayed up all night talking to someone. I remember starting a conversation with you a little after midnight and then then falling in love with you just around daybreak. … Continue reading Letters Without an Address – 1

Bleeding On The Keyboard

They both used to write. Before becoming adults, who worried about important things like college degrees, jobs and debt, they were a couple of middle-class rebels who thought poetry was the way they would change the world. She was the melancholy type and her writing reflected that as well. He was the lovesick one. He … Continue reading Bleeding On The Keyboard

The Cocoon Experience

Almost never do we close our eyes and walk off a cliff (unless we are bungee jumping). It’s nearly impossible to do it even when the cliff is a metaphor, because the fall is always real. It’s exhilarating and scary to fall down the face of a metaphorical mountain without knowing when you are going … Continue reading The Cocoon Experience