The Pit

“I’ve got that feeling again.” she said. “What feeling?” I asked, knowing perfectly well what she meant. It’s all I ever felt every time she had to leave. Time and time over I’d ask her to stay. I’d offer anything to make her more comfortable – the guest room, my favourite t-shirt, stock my pantry…

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A heart aches

I feel my fingers scroll down my dial list to find you. And even though I feel like calling your number, I know it isn’t of any use. How I wish I called you all those times that I contemplated it. How I wished I typed out that stupid text suggestion. Deep down I wished…

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Lost you when I loved you most

Some days, I miss you. Enough to curl in a corner and cry myself to sleep. In other days, I’m not sure. I stay in a loop thinking of you and talking about you. Perhaps, this is my mind finding comfort for my guilt. Between the thoughts of you and validating how to feel. Some…

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Unfinished Business

I’m sometimes jealous that you met death earlier than I did. I’ve had your dreams for far too long and I wish I admitted it when you did. Maybe you would have known that even in that way, you weren’t alone. I sometimes think I could catch up with you. And we could finish our…

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How?

How many books do you think I’ve read? How many of them are about lost love. How many movies have been made? How their stories will never match ours. How many tracks did we hear together? How many did we never share with each other. How did you let yourself believe I didn’t love you?…

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In a parallel universe

In a parallel universe, I hope we’re together. I hope we speak about all of our differences and how we’re still a splitting image of each other. I hope that we make plans, irrespective of just wanting to kidnap each others pets. And when we do, I want us to witness the same kind of…

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You and I

Written in honour of ‘A’, this piece speaks of a hypothetical ‘we’.

Reality Check

Every once in a while, the maker sends you a reality check.