leap of faith

i woke up dead this morning bones intact heart beatingeyes openlungs screamingbare handsclutching the fabric of skinnails digging into thighs i assembled myselfnext to the eye mask on the tablea lopsided smilepinned to the fridgecasual indifference at the readyon the clothes rackthe muse of comedymasquerading as my favourite bottled musk a familiar stench of despairtending…

unsung dreams

breathe in the fading scent of dreams long forgotten,  their muffled cries lost in a cacophony of banal pursuits,  ones you haven’t had the courage to chase, to hunt like you were meant to. dreams that adorned your childhood, your teens, now haunt your present, dreams that await an unmarked grave,  smothered underneath the rut of a maddening race.…

a trek to Har Ki Dun – the valley of gods

After having contemplated at length about which Himalayan trek to choose, I decided on the Har Ki Dun Trek with Indiahikes. Since their usual batch size consisted of about 25 people, I, being slightly introverted, was skeptical. But boy, was I wrong! It turned out to be everything I had dreamed of... and more! I'm…