My Shirt on The Clothesline

failed to sleeve my heart  but my brests. My mother has asked the tailor to stitch a  waistcoat,  the  shield neath my blazer to wall the air from my body, to wall their  bodies from my body, to wall my crave to shave  my face and step into  a floral dress. I want the breeze  to tunnel through my soul. In trains, I held my  mother's hands when  we slipped into ...

Colours

"Why are your grades so low? Why aren't you studying? Why are you crying now? Aren't you aman?" I-I… am I a man after all? Or is my identity built on a mountain of lies? If nothing else, a 8 point SGisn't low, that's certain. I guess I haven't told you about myself. My name...

We’re So Scarred

We’re so scarred for loveSo starved for loveAll we want is love All we do is loveAnd when we are in loveWe do everything for loveKill us for loveKill them for love. The only thing thatbridges all worlds,It knows no language,Has no rules.Sonnets, ballads,Novels, murders.Poems, stories, Letters to lovers.Isn’t this what the world is made up of?Isn’t this what...

Why Be Definitive When It’s A Spectrum?

The thing i have heard most from the people ive come out to was, when were you sure? When did you know? But the thing is both your gender and sexuality aren't just one constant - at least not mine or the people i've met online. It's always changing, all your life as your experiences...

Relationship and Time

It was not a date that I was getting ready for.It was a dream that was making me dress like a queen.He arranged for a date tonight, is a dream that had come true.After informing me about it, he asked me to get ready by afternoon fifteen. Neither it was the time for a lunch...

Rain On Me

If I will go out to ask my fellow people that,How many kinds of people are there in this world?A hundred! A thousand! Or maybe a million.All the answers will differ with different people but with same meaning –There are different kinds of people out there! Just like the raindrops falling off my hat!There are...

A Segment of Love Simon

My love life is like a Ferris wheel,It is because, I am never able to hold up a particular moment of joy and happiness.Sometimes being a Gemini is the reason that I feel,But! Other times I see my love life as a mess. I see myself as a person who is desperate,And also, as a...

First Crystals

So fleetingThe moments that happened so fleetingly,The moments that I thought would last forever,Shimmered into oblivion within seconds.Those precious moments,Forgotten within the blink of an eyeEven then I couldn’t do anythingAnd when you broke down beside me,Tears adorned our eyes like crystalsGlinting, as if waiting to erase our memories into oblivion. Even as we drift...

Beyond The Obscurity

“Freedom of Expression,”A right said to be inherent in allBut is it really?That inherent right,Isn’t it often curtailedBy the social constructions of gender? Am I so wrong for feeling suffocatedFor not being able to be who I am?The pain pulsing in my heart,Waiting to spew outTo dirty that “society” with itsUgly and slimy armsIs it...

The Closet’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us

conversations held with the morning moon/5 am/I notice the hair falling in her face/it’s lilac but she says it’s mauve/it’s pretty whatever/a tear shining from her left eye/should I pretend to not notice/I will hold her/I will hold you/I promise no man will keep you safe/twelve hours spent debating/I will let her be/I will let...