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Oct 2014 · 659
Disenchanted (10 Words)
Urmila Oct 2014
The magician loses his power,
When you learn his tricks
Oct 2014 · 877
Submerged
Urmila Oct 2014
It was the night of the crimson moon,
Maybe that explains,
The stir in the sea of emotions,
A wave of fear,
Then one of courage,
A wave of love,
Then one of indifference,
Crashing on the shore of the heart,
Logic threw boulders,
To avoid another crash,
But the waves, stronger,
Strengthened by the moon,
Overcame,
Submerged
Oct 2014 · 788
Become (10w)
Urmila Oct 2014
Burst into flames,
Remember,
You are after all,
A Phoenix.
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzche
Sep 2014 · 353
Lines
Urmila Sep 2014
Draw the line,
Draw as many lines as you wish,
But I suggest,
*Draw them in pencil
Sep 2014 · 365
There's a Possibility
Urmila Sep 2014
...That the impossibility of the dream,
makes us want to dream it
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
Cocoa
Urmila Sep 2014
Life is like dark chocolate;
Rich if you appreciate it,
Bitter if you don't
Sep 2014 · 781
Variety of Words
Urmila Sep 2014
There are as many interpretations,
As there are words

There are as many words,
As there are ideas seeking expression
Not everything is "great",
You don't "love" everything,
"Awesome" must leave you in awe.
Choose words wisely.
Sep 2014 · 1000
Words (Joe Cole's Challenge)
Urmila Sep 2014
They guided her,
They were friends since she made their acquaintance,
She didn't know all of them,
But the ones she did, she knew them well,
And guarded them fiercely,
For in the times they lived in,
They were abused, brutally abused,
Stripped off their meaning, bastardized
And she couldn't stand it
To her, they represented so much more than a space filling sound,
And using them inappropriately, would just not do
They were her comrades,
Her support system,
They answered questions,
- She couldn't ask,
They questioned ideas,
- She thought unquestionable,
They fooled her some times,
But never by their intention,
She played with them,
Weaved one of a kind garments out of them,
And gifted them to the ones she really loved, like a specially knit sweater,
They kept her warm,
They kept her content,
They kept her hungry,
~ Words
Only words,
Are all that she had...
To do so much more,
Than take your heart away
Some times we say as an expression, "words failed me", but more often than not, we're the ones failing words. Use them wisely.
Sep 2014 · 381
Blinding Insights
Urmila Sep 2014
The mirror can be a scary thing,
Especially,
In the human form
Sep 2014 · 844
A Good Run
Urmila Sep 2014
Wait
Hurry up!
No, you slow down
You were always faster than me, what has happened to you?
Things change
Catch up, I'll wait
Why don't you just go ahead?*
Because, my love,
We started this together,
And the finish-line without you,
Would just be my *finish
Sep 2014 · 380
Truths
Urmila Sep 2014
The truth has multiple versions,
You cling to your version,
Condemning any other version as a lie,
Missing out on a chance to explore other truths
Sep 2014 · 1.4k
Carefree Ink
Urmila Sep 2014
The ink will leak,
To manifest to beautiful design,
Or simply blotch on available canvas,
It does not matter;
The pen is broken,
**The ink will leak
Sep 2014 · 532
Cutting Losses
Urmila Sep 2014
I kept holding on; I was afraid of losing you
I'm letting go now; I'm afraid of losing me.
Sep 2014 · 502
Hobo Heart
Urmila Sep 2014
The vagabond needed a place to rest,
Let it find some comfort,
*Don't become home
Sep 2014 · 386
Rinse Repeat
Urmila Sep 2014
Fill in the empty holes,
When the whole begins to appear,
Gunshots all over again
Sep 2014 · 277
Go For It.
Urmila Sep 2014
If you want to say it,
Say it.
If you want to do it,
Do it.
If you want to be it,
Be it.
If you want to give it,
Give it.
If you want to write it,
Write it

Life's too short,
Shorter than your next breath,
Don't waste it
Take a minute,
Ponder,
If the world ended tonight,
Would you die a content being?,
If not, are you doing all that you can to change it?
Do it.
Everything else, is up to Him.
And if you're looking for a sign,
*Here it is.
Sep 2014 · 893
Earthquake
Urmila Sep 2014
It's hard to understand,
Where exactly we stand,
Feel the ground beneath... shaking,
Somewhere, something... breaking,
It has happened in the past,
Before you were around,
It's happening again,
With a louder, deafening sound
Do you feel it?
Does it scare you?
Let's talk,
Let me prepare you
Sep 2014 · 1.3k
A Grain of Sand
Urmila Sep 2014
A grain of sand,
Once part of a desert dune,
Taken away by a windstorm,
Parted too soon

Regal was the life,
In the dune where I was born,
Unearthed now,
From my existence torn

A wandering gypsy,
I'm one with the wind,
From all my attachments,
Unhinged, unhinged
The subject, "A Grain of Sand", inspired by Joe Cole's challenge this week.
Thank you, Mr. Cole. Enjoyed writing with such a subject in mind.
Sep 2014 · 609
Tequila Would Do
Urmila Sep 2014
Weary from all the breathing,
Exhausted with the shreds of conversation,
Worn out of the pretence,
Drained with all the thinking,
Just...





Tired.
Sep 2014 · 408
Thought-full
Urmila Sep 2014
Mind generated,
Mind boggling,
Mind numbing,

... Thoughts
Sep 2014 · 468
A Matter of Fact
Urmila Sep 2014
It did not matter,
It does not matter,
It will not matter...

*Unless you make it matter to you
Sep 2014 · 349
Love Packaged in 2 feet
Urmila Sep 2014
Oh, my little love,
All of 2 feet,
I leap across to surprise you,
And scared instead you weep!
It's just me, don't cry!
I take you in my arms
And wipe your tears dry,

Oh, my little love,
You hold on to me tight,
I scared you,
And yet in my arms you hide

A minute passes,
Then another,
You've let go of the embrace,
But now I need another

You forgive in a moment,
And flash your disarming smile,
I'd do anything for it,
And make it stay a long while
To my 1.25 year old niece, who hasn't quite understood surprises yet, but knows a great deal about forgiveness and letting go
Sep 2014 · 698
Clouded
Urmila Sep 2014
Clouded judgement,
Clouded thoughts,
Clouded vision,
Clouded life,

Waiting...
*for the rain
Sep 2014 · 267
Dance of Days
Urmila Sep 2014
Are you doing what I did?
Are you ignoring today,
Dreaming about a tomorrow,
That may never see the light of day?
Sep 2014 · 333
Search
Urmila Sep 2014
Nothing is where it is, because you want it to be...
Nobody is who they are, because you want them to be...
You may be who you are, and where you are, because you want to be,
But you won't be at peace,
until you are who and where,
*you are meant to be
Sep 2014 · 622
A Gripping Irony
Urmila Sep 2014
Some things grip you tight,
though you want to set yourself free;
Some things slip away,
though you hold on tight...
Sep 2014 · 883
Anchors
Urmila Sep 2014
That anchor you hold onto for dear life?
It may keep you from drowning,
But it's also keeping you from exploring the vast
Sep 2014 · 382
<< ? >>
Urmila Sep 2014
People often wish life had a rewind button,
Sometimes I wish too,
But at the moment,
A forward button would just do

To see if there's a light,
At the end of this long dark tunnel,
And to see if it's worth the fight,
To put up with this hopeless struggle

To see if there's a real version,
Of these dreams of tomorrow years,
To see if courage will be victorious,
Over these crippling omnipresent fears

To see if there's an end,
To this bottomless free fall,
To see if it's everything ever imagined,
Or, (I hope not)
*if it's nothing at all
Sep 2014 · 1.2k
You're No Swimmer
Urmila Sep 2014
Pour your heart out to me
I can't
Why?
*You'd drown in the very first drop
Sep 2014 · 479
Closure
Urmila Sep 2014
We couldn't be lovers,
But you were always a good friend,
So that's what I became too.

Then you stopped being a good friend,
So for lifting off that burden,
**thank you
Sep 2014 · 1.8k
Shattered Glass and Clay
Urmila Sep 2014
They were shattered pieces of glass,
In a jar I had kept away,
I thought I'd use them,
To create an artefact some day,
You found the jar in my closet,
I told you with this jar don't play,
You said you could make something beautiful,
With my shattered glass and your clay,
Then you made a masterpiece,
Your art had a metamorphic way
And although you broke your own creation,
Thank you, is all I could say
Sep 2014 · 568
War of Worlds
Urmila Sep 2014
Standing there, wounds exposed
Bruised and broken,
Fiction put up a tough fight with reality,
Reality won in the end
But alas!
Fiction became the elixir for reality's injuries
Sep 2014 · 563
Sunsets and You
Urmila Sep 2014
The sun sets;
The thoughts begin to darken;
You switch on the light
Sep 2014 · 859
Untimely Pause
Urmila Sep 2014
How did we end up here?
This is not remotely what we planned
Young adults with once starry eyes,
Watching our dreams slip away like sand

There were goals and ambitions,
There were some mighty plans,
We knew their magnanimity,
But they seemed just in the reach of our hands

The hustle was always part of the deal,
We knew that from the start,
We hustled and sweat all we could,
We even gave it our heart

Do we accept defeat then?
And call it a lost cause,
Surely this can't be the way our lives end,
Let's just call it an untimely pause
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
Be Not Deceived
Urmila Sep 2014
Be not deceived,
Words are known devils,
But sometimes even actions lie

Be not deceived,
When your intellect cautions,
Against what your heart tends to hide

Be not deceived,
**What appears to be your salvation,
May well be your damnation in disguise
Sep 2014 · 223
Untitled
Urmila Sep 2014
Dreams have deadlines,
Know when you missed one,
Then focus on the next
Sep 2014 · 4.4k
Friendship 2.0
Urmila Sep 2014
We were more than friends,

Then we were less than friends,

And now we're finally *friends
For a friend I almost lost, because of that foolish heart, but luckily, we found each other back
Sep 2014 · 306
Night
Urmila Sep 2014
This dark sky?
The fiduciary to our secrets,
Those stars that illuminate it?
Solitary moments   we spent  together,
That cloud covered moon?
*All that we can, and cannot be
Sep 2014 · 2.3k
Eclipse
Urmila Sep 2014
The sky is full of stars;
You made one person your moon;
The moon is bound to eclipse
Aug 2014 · 864
Why, Ocean, Why?
Urmila Aug 2014
You're going to retreat back to your infinity, oh ocean,
Why do you then, keep crashing your waves towards me?
Each time they appear, I shimmer bright,
Just as the sunshine's reflection on your chest,
I rejoice in your arrival,
And within moments, you take away my lustre*

- Seashore
Aug 2014 · 293
Done
Urmila Aug 2014
Bathing in your sunshine,
I mistook myself for the moon,
I'm a sun too, with a blinding light of my own

So now, I declare a finality,
I am finally done.
Done trying to please you,
Done attempting to be part of your glorious life,
Done putting you before me.

But for all that you've shown me, beautiful angel,
I'll never be done with three things:
I'll never be done praying for you,
I'll never be done thinking about you,
I'll never be done wanting you.
In silence.

But to keep a morsel of myself intact,
And to grow it into all that I could be,
With you, I'm done
Aug 2014 · 603
Dimensions of Love
Urmila Aug 2014
You have always been loved deeply and widely,

I was never loved widely, but I was more than content with the depth of your love,

I loved you beyond the depths of the ocean, but for you, the width of the sky wasn't enough
Aug 2014 · 673
Different Tastes
Urmila Aug 2014
Our problem was, very different tastes
Mine was terrific, I mean look at him
His was abysmal, I can't even look at *her
Aug 2014 · 872
Payphone
Urmila Aug 2014
Exhausted all my change calling you,
Didn't get through
Only to realise, *your line was dead
Aug 2014 · 594
Light
Urmila Aug 2014
There was a light, shining brighter than the sun
I should have basked in it, but I stared too long,
...And I was blind
Aug 2014 · 1.8k
We Were Lost
Urmila Aug 2014
We were lost, but it was a good time
Only because we were lost, did we each other find

Kids thrown into the big world, a whole new one for you,
We were looking for a foothold of sanity
And bumped into a common ground of promises new

We held hands in theory,
2 blind people helping each other through,
But we thought the world was blind,
And sight was just for me and you
An unknown minute apart,
Would turn our lives upside down
We were tourists finding our way,
In a strange strange town

Our dreams seemed to shatter before our eyes,
But we gave ourselves hope
We took solace in the fact,
That 'least we were at the same end of the rope

We prayed, that the light at the tunnel may appear
We insisted we're brave, even when we were crippled with fear
Those fits of laughter that we shared,
Seemed like oxygen on a mountaintop
We were warmth,
When below freeze point the temperature dropped

So you see,
We were lost, but it was a good time
Now we're lost again,
And I just want that old time
When 2 people are lost, but just one finds their way...
Aug 2014 · 1.1k
Avoidance
Urmila Aug 2014
Avoidance of human contact, is the best way to remain human

If there are no ties, what will be severed?
If there's no attachment, there will be no burden of holding on  

"But you promised!", you beg,
"Well things change with time!", they dictate
I remind myself of what John Green said, "Sometimes people  don't understand the promises they make when they're making them"

I am not capable of contemporary human relations
Shallow connections aren't connections at all  

Everyone is interchangeable,
Why hold anyone to a pedestal?
It's about being at the right place at the right time,
So what if it's the wrong person?

Let them call you an anti social monster,
You know it is them that are the true monsters relishing your heart's meat  

*Avoidance, of human contact, I have thus learned, is the best way to remain human.
Aug 2014 · 1.0k
And When We Finally Spoke
Urmila Aug 2014
You counter argued everything I said;

I took you off the hook and said no more;

What I meant was said between the lines,

A space you no longer looked for...
Of conversations that don't go nearly as planned
Jul 2014 · 244
Dear God
Urmila Jul 2014
You're testing my patience, you're testing my will,
You know I've fought hard, and I shall still  

I didn't question your motives, until I had no choice,
Why do you want to me to lose my faith, why don't you hear my voice?  

It's never been an equal world, there are ups and downs for all,
Had a share of highs, but lately into nothingness, it's a free fall  

Existence as a tree, is not what you could have possibly planned for me,
Then why am I a listless vacuum, with nothing pouring in or out of me  

If this is as good as it's gonna get, then take it away at once,
Keep those souls I love happy, And to see you, let me have a chance
When you desperately need a win
Jul 2014 · 271
What's Wrong?
Urmila Jul 2014
"What's wrong?", you ask
And as the world crumbles to dust,
All I manage is, "nothing, all good".
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