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In the longest nights of silence, sometimes it's not me alone,,
I feel,the presence of someone alike but different.
Could it be possible? We are always walking a pair.
I wonder if it's my spirit, animal form of me and maybe my divided mind.
The decision we fight with ourselves, this or that.
Maybe it's never about intuition,but our daemons.
Found myself liking a type of meal,but my body is allergic to it .
Above what we value, maybe we should seek our deamom and cherish it.
In the toughest moments,we challenge them but don't know how.
That's part of us apart from us but with us.
We all have our Daemon
They crowned me maiden-marked with no coronet,
No rite, no reckoning, no alphabet.  
From chalk to chastity, the shift was swift
A girl unasked, yet forced to drift.  

Uncles morphed to bro, aunties to sis,
As if age could be erased by this.  
The same mouths that once fed me lore  
Now ask, “When will your parents unlock the door?”  

From half-pan hymns to full-pan chains,
From innocence to encoded stains.  
From Ma’s lap to lone lamp-light,
From lullabies to legal fright.  

They speak of the binding rite, not of mind,
Of bridal veils, not truths unlined.  
They offer vows, not volition,
As if my body’s their admission.  

Some changes chisel, some changes choke,
Some stitch your soul, some slit the cloak.  
Some come like guests with garlanded grace,
Some barge in, branding your face.  

But I
I ink my ache in harf and flame,
I ritualize what they rename.  
I rhyme the rupture, sanctify shame,
I forge a scroll they cannot tame.  

So let them call me maiden-marked, miss,
I’ll answer with a serpent hiss.  
For I am not what they decree  
I’m carticity, not casualty.
This poem confronts the cultural conditioning that marks girls with roles before they’re ready, before they’re asked. It critiques the performative shift from childhood to womanhood, where identity is overwritten by ritual, and autonomy is traded for expectation. It’s a declaration of self-authorship — a refusal to be renamed, repackaged, or reduced.
maybe if i write about you enough
spread proofs of our love on the internet

let strangers know how we used to dance
the gods from the satellite will bring us closer

maybe they are playing games with us
shooting our waves south to north

the earth is round
we will find each other again

it’ll be a Thursday
and the moon will be shining

when we do meet,
you’ll look like me — maybe older.
your firm hand will hold mine
and i disappear in you.
The realm extols conjugation’s creed,
But I discern a veiled stampede
Of shackled vows in velvet guise,
Where sovereign souls are canonized.

👁️ The Covenant of Clasped Rings
A gilded snare with spectral strings.  
To cede your flame, your soul-scroll’s lore,
To one who claims your inner core.

I’ve charted stars, inscribed my name,
Not to be stitched in someone’s frame.  
Not to be paused, not to be tamed,
Not to be blamed when joy is maimed.

🎭 The Duet of Domestic Grace
A masquerade in tethered lace.  
No one blooms in bridal cage,
They wither slow in silent rage.

And if it’s just for flesh and skin,
Is that the gate where truths begin?  
If passion’s price is self-erasure,
Then let me guard my soul’s own treasure.

💔 Parental love a sanctified flame,
Unbranded, boundless, free of name.  
But this duet of spouse and spouse?  
A staged affection, haunted house.

So let me clutch my soul-scroll tight,
Let me script my own birthright.  
No vows, no veil, no muted scream
Just me, my truth, my sovereign dream.

🌑 The Ceremony Unchosen I defy,
To trade my stars for borrowed sky.  
Let others dance in tethered grace,
I’ll walk alone, but not erase.
This poem challenges the romantic and cultural idealization of marriage, exposing the silent erasures that often accompany conjugal rites. It honors parental love as unconditional and critiques the performative nature of domestic partnerships that demand self-sacrifice. A declaration of self-authorship, this piece refuses to trade celestial becoming for borrowed vows.
In the vestibule of youth, where dreams ferment,
They call infatuation “maturity”—how quaint.  
But I, a cartographer of sanctified time,
Refuse to mortgage my becoming for a borrowed rhyme.  

Let them chase trends like moths to neon flame,
I walk in cadence with my own name.  
Commitment, not to another’s orbit,
But to the constellations I’ve yet to inherit.  

This is the era of cerebral bloom,
Not of vows whispered in adolescent gloom.  
Why tether wings to transient winds,
When the sky itself awaits what my spirit rescinds?  

Premature pledges fracture the spine of purpose,
Stretching us millionfold from our sacred corpus.  
Love, when summoned before its season,
Spoils the soil—defies reason.  

So I remain uncommitted, not unfeeling,
My solitude is not silence, but healing.  
I am the free bird, not caged by trend,
My sanctuary begins where false rituals end.
This poem challenges the romantic urgency often imposed on youth, reframing solitude as a sacred space for growth rather than a void to be filled. It honors the slow bloom of purpose, the sanctity of self-authorship, and the refusal to mortgage one's becoming for borrowed affection. A manifesto for those who walk in cadence with their own name.
They were born of glass four shards in bloom,
A boy, two girls, then dusk’s last plume.
A house once held their laughter tight,
Till fate collided wrong with right.
Steel kissed steel, and silence screamed,
Two souls erased, two dreams unseamed.
The cradle cracked, the walls grew thin,
And strangers bought the blood within.
One sold to silk, one sold to shame,
One wore a badge, one lost his name.
They wandered near, yet knew not kin,
Their roots erased beneath their skin.
A mother’s love, a borrowed lie,
A party mask, a hollow eye.
She danced for men who broke her grace,
While daughters drowned in silent space.
One touched by hands that should not dare,
One blamed for truth too raw to bear.
One drove the wheel, one wore the crown,
Yet none could see the blood run down.
The eldest searched with fractured breath,
To stitch the seams of scattered death.
But destiny, that cruel disguise,
Kept every answer veiled in lies.
They should have grown in garden light,
But bloomed in shadow, out of sight.
One moment tore their world apart
A crash, a cry, a shattered heart.
So let us hold what time can break,
Each breath, each bond, for memory’s sake.
For life’s a thread, not iron-spun
And glassborn souls can still outrun
The silence.
This poem traces the aftermath of a family torn apart by tragedy — a crash that shattered not just bodies, but identities, futures, and the fragile threads of belonging. It explores how trauma disperses lives into roles, masks, and silence, while one soul searches to stitch the scattered pieces. A meditation on memory, loss, and the quiet rebellion of glassborn resilience.
I stitched my soul in borrowed thread,
A saree spun from words she said.
She spoke in sequins, smiled in ash
Her promises, a dopamine crash.
I matched her hue, her scripted glee,
While she rehearsed duplicity.
Three days drowned in bridal haze,
My books undone in cosmetic blaze.
No echo came, no tethered grace,
Just phantom friends in photo space.
She played wife to a borrowed man,
While I decayed in waiting’s span.
Her exit plan a lover’s whim,
My day reduced to shadow limb.
Even my blood boiled past its name,
A tongue unleashed in grief and flame.
Better no orbit than one that spins
With hollow crowns and plastic sins.
I learned:
Not all circles are sacred,
And not all smiles are kin.
This poem explores the emotional aftermath of a ceremonial betrayal — where tradition, performance, and borrowed intimacy unravel the speaker’s sense of self. It contrasts the glitter of social rituals with the decay of personal truth, and questions the sanctity of circles that exclude, erase, or commodify connection. A meditation on kinship, grief, and the cost of waiting.
I wear a love-proof vest, swallowing bullets with my face—
all my scars know their taste. My hopes are all on diet to fit
today’s problems; spray-painted days, worries tagged across
the night— each thought a vandalism I can’t scrub away.

Fruitful passions, I can’t stomach passionfruit in my punch.
Life loves to punch back harder— each sip a reminder that
sweetness still bruises. Young & depressed: insecurities
overdressed, confidence underdressed, thoughts pressed
into stress.

Life asks you for a ruler, to lay it down smoother, measuring
the depth of your love. But... it doesn’t apply so well to me,
when I bunked a few lessons as a day-schooler. Always trying
to fit in by being cooler, amongst a circle of friends, but really,
we were just squares— boxed in by our insecurities; angles
sharper than the bonds we bent. And I try to pray long—
but sometimes, I digress. Sorry… what were we saying?

So much emptiness, schemes plotted against me, reality
never stretching as far as dreams. Illuding the fact, illusions
often feel more real. Interluding between horizons: am I ahead,
or beneath the dark where even stars are too shy to come out?

Hope still comes as a guest. Still wishing for superpowers:
invisible to pain, invincible to scars, shapeshifting to belong.
Force fields to block their touch. Time manipulation— just to
keep up with the times. X-ray vision to see through their false
intentions. Superspeed to outrun the pain. Healing to undo my
shame.

But in the end, I have no cape, no mask, no trick of the pen—
I'm only human. And I’ll be human to the end, recalling the
feeling of being young & depressed.
Esme 3d
I looked in the mirror today,
i don't do it often unless I'm putting on makeup,
But i actually looked,
My room was dim and the time hit 4am,
I had the bright idea of looking,
I wish i didnt,
My face wasn't my own,
You could see the pain,
The eye bags weighing heavy all the tears left uncried,
I wasn't myself  anymore,
I was barely a corporeal form of myself,
The shadow of you haunting behind me,
Its the only time i see you now,
In the darkness of my room,
With no where to hide
can you tell i went crazy last night???
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