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Clare Oct 2014
The last few evenings have been revealing.

A few discarded mugs,
A few balled sheets
of paper and what not,
A few dreams half painted
on cheap chart papers.
In all that mess, a single voice
soundlessly telling stories...

There was never much to say,
There was never much to hear.

If only living could be
in the number of charts
and balled sheets,
In mugs used and thrown
about a room that reeks
of neglect and disillusionment.

If only living could be
In the monsoon of mess,
In the drought of tears,
In the freezing of feelings,
In the ocean of fears,
In hands that held,
In shrines visited,
In songs of adulation,
In fingers of accusation,
In hopes and desperation,
Or even in lone portations...

I'd say, I've lived a lifetime,
Sure, I feel old.
Clare Sep 2014
By what decree
you took it on you
to claim me as your own?
Let this world
and its ways
not fool you into grandeur,
For if any day
I consent
It will be for me, not you.
Clare Aug 2014
Hope
is to live for more
is to talk of a way
when none's there
is to aim for the sky
with a jump knee-high
is to believe in tomorrow
though highs and lows
is to hold nothing back
while providing for lack
is to live till the end
with sincere intent
is to know of the judgment
and be ready, be content.
Clare Jul 2014
Really, now,
You want Reality?
Take it.

A six year old gangraped.
A father and son shot dead.
A mother's womb slit, spilt open.
A teen with eighteen bones broken.
An old man's head sent flying.
A soldier on field left dying.

Are you kidding me?
You still want Reality?

A plane full of people lost, sunk.
A mass ****** with a mad gun.
A child killed to make a human bomb.
A daughter beheaded for marrying wrong.
A massacre followed by a public celebration.
Using religion, tradition, justice for desolation.

Are you ******' kidding me?
You still want Reality?
Here, take it.
This Is Reality.
Clare Jul 2014
There was nothing.
Then came light.
It illuminated, but,
It also discriminated.
All that was dark was doomed.

There was nothing.
Then came life.
It prospered, but,
It also destroyed.
All that was unique was lost.

If you have never wished
that we were a little different,
Think of yourself as a waste,
In the name of all that's Human.
For by thinking, you become.
Clare Jul 2014
The silent views
they may sigh
In the middle of nights
Spread them like colours of light.
                                   - Najeeb Nayazi
Clare Jun 2014
A rolling raindrop
and ax blade on the bark meet
At cross roads head long.
An attempt at Haiku.
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