life and death
        amid breaths
is black or white
        as per your ride
life is a show
          you reap
what you sow
         only lesson
for all to know
          life is a wave
with ups and downs
          who surf it all
always rebound

*Bharti

The way you stare
as if the galaxies
are right in front of you.

The way you smile,
like you've discovered
a new type of hue.

Too bad you're looking at her,
and
not me.

let me just say,
i am sorry.
for all the nights
i got too drunk to move
so i would not have to feel.
for the days
i swallowed away pills
to numb myself
into acceptance.
for the summers i spent
planning how to
**** myself.
for the winters
when i'd hide away.

your love is as distant as the stars,
and just as dead.
yet i wish on them every night..