Posts Tagged ‘hope’

Envy

Posted: 28th April 2015 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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They do not envy your loss, they only envy your gain, They envy your happiness, they do not envy your pain, They envy your wandering, they do not envy that you are hopelessly lost, They envy your enjoyment of the snowfall not the pain you endure with the frost, They envy your winter sunshine and […]

He had often warned himself not to build castles and decks of dreams for they had a way of crashing down unceremoniously whenever he dared build them. He had stopped making that mistake after numerous crash and burns. But then he dared again. Hoping this time it would be different. He had suffered through enough […]

He was adrift in a sea of indecision. Life was a sinkhole and he was sinking further into the morass of a jaded existence. Lonely despite friends and sad despite the smiles. Directionless and vague ambitions and plans for the future. Existential crisis, quarter life crisis or whatever it may be termed he had diagnosed […]

  I dreamed once that I was going to be hanged; but I was not at all surprised about it. Nobody was. My relations came to see me off, I thought, and to wish me “Good-bye!” They all came, and were all very pleasant; but they were not in the least astonished–not one of them. […]

Last Winter

Posted: 10th December 2010 by aseem.ace in Poems
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The chill of last winter is still in their bones, Their very souls froze at a brush of the cold stones, The fire in their hearth burned strong and bright , Yet against the chill of the heart, it provided no respite, For the winter’s chill was not due to the freezing winds alone, It […]