The stars follow her
everywhere she goes
When she gets lost,
she will let them guide her home.

Thee moon sings her lullaby
While she watches it look at the earth
With a certain longing
Not so very new to her.

And the sun,
Well it bleeds for her pain every evening
And paints the scarlet love all over the sky

The planets spin
Ever so slowly
So that she doesn't trip
And yet keeps progressing

The galaxies reside in her
Demanding her attention
To first name each stars that reside within her
Then look anywhere else

The light travels
Miles and miles
Only to land at her feet,

And the wind blows
She has heard them sigh
Because they are never able
To stay still
And just have a long look at her


So don't feel bad for her
Don't underestimate her power
Because she is kind enough
For she has got the whole universe with her.

-Aditi Kumari

He looked all his life,
Waited to be drenched in the tsunami of emotions she had within herself
Just One more time

Little did he know
The ocean inside her had dried,
The colors drained from her eyes
All because of his unsaid goodbye

The girl who never stood still,
Always burning and crashing
Now wore the silence of twilight hours,
Her life holding the emptiness
Of the infinite sky

She no longer remembers the first time his hand held hers,
She does not remember about the attraction his eyes held once

She used to be the words that set
Paper ablaze
Now she is just a smudge,
Out of place and frowned upon.

And now that his fire had blown off,
He went looking for the girl
With gaze that could set ashes on fire
But
She is no longer there

Now she is just a room with no window or, door
There is no point in knocking now
She gave up on looking out for your footsteps way back.

He could not see
the picture her eyes painted 
the lyrics her heart beats wrote 
the grace by which she walked
he could not see her for the magic she was.


he could not see 
the way buds blossomed 
when she walked their way
or how the way stars aligned
to guide him to her
because he was too caught up in someone else's light


she could not see 
he was far off wandering
to a place she could never reach
his eyes following the movement 
of someone else's gaze
she could not see him 
for the momentary delight he will bring
followed by a series of never ending longings
that never to be fulfilled

He was blinded
But was never numb enough
not to feel the homely aroma 
she carried
slowly the aroma became his choice of drug
soon she became the irresistible force

her vision was tainted
with the sweet words he framed
moments after moments
she made a house 
where memories 
were bricks 
with love as cement. 
she knew he would fall in
and he did

but no matter how strong the drug is, 
a person gets accustomed to it
and wants more,
everything seems off-limit

no matter how much you are willing to sacrifice
you can only destroy yourself 
till you still have something left in you to give
but she already had loved him
with every bit of love she was allowed to give.

and on a stormy night, past came knocking at the door,
the girl was terrified, but the boy let the stranger in. 
When he saw her face, she was no stranger at all
she was the girl, around whom
majority of his life had evolved


Back before she knew, 
the pictures in the frames were replaced
the background was same
but it was the hands of his childhood love he was holding,
the letters he wrote for her
now had a new address
she came like fresh air,
and swept off the traces of the drug
He once could not do without

she became stranger in her own house,
he did not force her out,
but nothing was the same
With love gone
All the walls had cracked

now if there is one thing that is worse than to never have known love, it would be to have known love and watch it getting snatched away

she watched him delete all the messages,
rephrase the words he so happily wrote for her not so long back 
the photographs were burnt
the numbers were removed
it was as if,
she was never there.

and the boy lived happily
with his girl 
I'm sure this is not how
you thought the story would progress
but this is how it usually goes,
so if you are in love,
you are the lucky ones
cause most of us are writing
about the love we lost.

If you bleed enough, maybe then you can make them feel your love
Love?
Love was never just a feeling to you but a certain someone
and maybe that is where it all went wrong

If you stop looking 
for the sun in his shadow
maybe then you can actually 
fix the rain falling inside your heart for so long
Long?
how long has it been 
since you started drowning
how long till you hit the bottom

If only you did not wait for him
to decorate the darkness 
laying by your side every night
then you could notice the shining star that you are
Star?
but did not the fire inside you consume you entirely
all you ever do is fade or die

If not every night
continued to dawned into another
Same old cycle
same self destruction 
with same old feelings
feelings?
yes, feelings that weigh me down
while you soar

The most she will do, is throw occasional glances your way
She may be your dream,
or the element of your worst nightmare

She may be the blush of your cheeks
Maybe the wetness of the tears
She will never see
She may be the cure or, the pain
The hurricane of trouble,
or a shower of blessings from above.

She Maybe the blanket that keeps you warm,
or the fire that brings you down
She will teach you all about love
The why's and how it is done
But she will never be yours

The most she will do
Is throw occasional smiles your way
She is the face you may never leave behind
She is always ahead of your time

She may be the kind of lost that you need
A feeling of homeliness
When you have been estranged all your life
She is both playful and grace
You'll never see more than she intends for you to see

She can either be ruthless truthfulness or casual lies
And she always catches you off guard
She may go left when all go right,
Walk miles to dance under the moon light
And you'll stand their enchanted
Envying the moon light that gets to caress her skin


The most she will do
Is let her shadows touch you
And you are more than glad
To live your life in her afterglow


She can take care of herself
She is the beauty you found in wilderness
she refuses to be tamed
That is why you love her

She smiles,
And the angels' sigh
She weeps
And the devil curses
you you'll take all those smiles and tears as souvenirs
And store them in your mind
To always revisit later

The most she will do
Is let you be her friend
For she won't be
Anyone's fool,
But you are already a fool
And she is the moon you want