Learning how to breathe..

I have forgotten how to write

I think, and try to indulge in self-pity. 

I pause, and discard this thought in disgust

How can anyone forget how to breathe?

I chastise myself. 

So I dig deep .. reword.. 

I have forgotten what it feels to shape words that move me

Yes. That makes sense. 

What is it that I feel? A blip of happiness?

Yes! Look! I've already started the ascent.

Focus, Krithika! 

The bliss of weaving together words

That flow as easily as the river

That make me as incandescent as the fire

That hurts me without ever laying a hand on me

That blurs my five senses with happiness

Oh! I remember. I remember. I remember. 

But, Ah! The irony.

Such irony..

I can shape words that move me..

But I can't make you feel, 

the way my words make me feel

So I ask myself - what good a writer am I?

I pause, and discard this thought in disgust

How can you breathe for someone else?

The mind heartily agrees.. But the heart smirks: 

The fact that you can't do that,

Speaks for your ability as a person, not a writer

So try to become a better person..

You won't forget how to write then

-Getting back to writing, Krithika 

Words

Let me play with you.

Let me coddle you, let me dress you up,

And proceed to rind you, down to the bones.

Dear Words, let me do all that and more to you.

Let me stitch you into beautiful carols,

Let me introduce you to the beautiful symphonies

And then shove you into the anguished cries of a broken child

Dear Words, you’ve made many lives.

You’ve also broken many hopes, and families.

And now, I’d like to return the favour.

Would you want to come over for dinner?

I’d feed you till you collapse from exhaustion

And make a shawarma out of you.

Or tea perhaps?

You know, I make great masala chai.

I’d serve you some and stuff you into the feather light croissant.

Dear Words, your species is heinous and vile.

You comfort one minute and scar the next.

You bring out the devil in me,

Unleash me in front of unsuspecting humans,

And I thoroughly I despise you for that.

So, I've decided to be a devil, that's faithful only to you.

And seduce you..

Seduce you.. until death can finally do us part.