boondein

दो बीघा ज़मीन और एक खिड़की आसमान...
पर हाँ.. उस पर एक मुस्कान!

(do beegha zameen aur ek khidki aasmaan...
par haan.. us par ek muskaan!)

to strike

and the way the half moon looks at her from behind the cluster of clouds.. beyond the rustling palm tree as she sits in her doorway... she knows there's a foreboding of some sort...

cold...

tonight she can write the saddest lines... her soul is breaking as words collide... an unending loop... her shadow falls through..

2 strings on 6 string and she tries to belt out a broken tune... a stray twisted string turns her shadow to smithereens...

she knows she's lost this war she waged... she knows its time to gather the bearings and walk on... just walk on... through that unending loop!

lonely?

and then she had something to share yet no one call...
she curled up in bed with a warm cookie and some milk and 'celebrated' in silence!

vicious...

"a three chord symphony crashes into space
the moon is hanging upside down.."
- Dire Straits

when the night comes..

she let her hair drop to her shoulders after a long long day... she had lived through several roles for the day and now wanted to be alone and be herself... those smoke filled hair had started to make her comfortable now... she was able to keep them free longer!

she looked up at dark night sky with deep auburn clouds and huddled up near the doorway as the night whispered her asleep!

then and now

ever felt that you wished for something... wanted something... and eventually, slowly began to give it up? let it all go? and then just as slowly.. after a long time of not believing, not wishing.. ever felt as if its started to come true.. bit by lil bit?? ever begun to re-believe that dreams can come true..?

it's been a monsoony afternoon and she found herself smiling..! someone very recently commented.. 'she seems to like the wind!' :) well.. her spirit runs free with it.. "as wild and reckless as thunder over the land, racing with the eagles, soaring with the wind! Flying... " (from Spirit) and here she was... believing that she could.. believing that it can maybe all come true..!