Posts Tagged ‘heart’

My Lost Home

Posted: 25th August 2018 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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The songs of my childhood lie captured in this structure of bricks; As the wind blows on this mournful morn, the sighs and creaks play on my mind weird tricks; I remember the day we first came to call this place our home around 26 years ago, I remember the passage of time as from […]

A Dark Diwali

Posted: 23rd October 2014 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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Ah Diwali Morning!! The morning where the night holds so much promise that you want time to move fast till darkness dawns on the planet. For the darkness that night is sure to be punctured by rapturous flailing of firecrackers against the immense sky. He had taken the day off. A rarity for him as […]

Transfixed he stared at those errant strands wanting nought but to touch them, Tousle those further to see her play longer on the chords that seemed to his touch alluringly welcome, Those wisps of hair she kept fiddling with when nervous or angry, perhaps driven by a subconscious desire for order amidst the chaos that […]

As he climbed higher he was witness to a fantastic vista. The horizon endless, the sea and the land merging into each other with the harmony that only nature can achieve. He had come here ages ago once. He had treaded the same pine needle strewn paths on the edge of the world or so […]

Scene 2 The lights gradually flicker and fade and shift to the middle of the stage where O is looking in their direction. She is unkempt, wearing pyjamas and a loose t-shirt. With her hair in a perfunctory knot. She’s clearly not interested in dressing up or looking good. An indefinite amount of time has […]

An excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities

Posted: 10th January 2011 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its […]