Author: Amrita Chowdhury

I see you standing there every night Beside the pillar, half shadows, half light Yet your body shrieks out intent Like a signboard. Neon. …. Barely of legal age The beast within with makeup you tame Yet it cannot conceal your rage Roaring like wildfire. Neon. …. A peaon to the hunger of the flesh…

Down the rabbit hole you go Tumble, tumble further down No matter a few bumps on the way For you are going to trade your frown … Trade it for wonder around every turn With the Madhatter as your guide Things you have never seen, or been, or felt Where the real and fantasy worlds…

You have fireflies in your hair, girl Lighting up the darkness Soft green yellow lights Warm and magical … You can walk on rainbow, girl Ride its waves of undulating light String its colours in your hair And let them fly … You can dream of unicorns, girl Of healing potions And clarity, bright white,…

All the stories you have been told Of damsels in distress Beautiful and helpless, none of them bold … Who weeps and laments, her right overdue Till a handsome Prince Charming Rushes to her rescue … If you are imprisoned in your tower with dragons to slay Waiting for your own prince His mighty strength…

Jump! It’s just a tiny puddle And a bit of mud can’t hold you back You have to swim oceans when you grow … Jump! Take another leap of faith No matter the stab of your broken heart You still have much to give and this time, he will be true … Jump! Reach for…

Now that you are here Sit with me, have a sip This luscious deep-crimson-magenta hue Will stain your lips with the colour of romance And reach deeper Its vapours seep into your veins Slowly Not the mad rush of the first love of adolescent minds But the slow indelible attraction of every gaze held, just…

Hey Stranger! You and I were supposed to meet this way Eyes lost in the horizon of brilliant hues of the setting sun, My favourite time this, this magical dusk That turns every drop of water to a potion And makes this fleeting moment on this beach seem like our forever … Hey Stranger! You…

Gluttony is a sin you say To want more than you have, a crime Be content with your life you say Have patience and you shall be rewarded in time … But who is to say what’s more, what’s enough Who’s to define what to want Who can tell what you need To survive, and…

A life lived in fractions, fraction of a life … A tiny bit of space to call our own A house, a room, a corner, a bed Ever shrinking space we can call home … Craving, yearning for someone’s love A moment of affection, a fleeting touch Wishing it would last longer, an impossible forever…

I keep seeking the one thing I want Eternity With you In my words, silences, thoughts, dreams Something you can’t give Won’t give The difference has ceased to matter . Now there is only isolation The empty question hammered into my mind, my eyes Haunting every moment A question you won’t answer, can’t answer An…

I plunge into the depths of darkness and close my eyes Its embrace, familiar Familiar pain, familiar comfort, familiar numbness Is it how it’s going to end then? No, it’s how it’s going to go on The descent, the desire to end, the desire to be The make-believe climb towards the make-believe light The forever…

In the darkness and the shimmer of moonlight Each breath remembered, and relived Vapors of love, breathed in Intoxication In you . In desire that smoulders, soul that hungers Addiction For you . In the agony of closeness and strings of distance That bind us Together . I find my peace And answer the call…

Blue is my favourite colour and possibly my favourite mood It wraps me up in its cobalt hues Stringed with lilac, mesmerising Little flowers dancing in the sea The sea, endlessly beautiful, endlessly powerful, endlessly vast Envelops me in its blue embrace Coaxing me in Cold and refreshing in its familiarity And I float around…

An Apology to the year gone by We have cursed you so many times Called you names, wished you gone Felt your stronghold And woken up choking for breath In the middle of the night We have cursed you for our fear gripped mind For every cough, every sneeze For the paranoia ringing in empty…