Lyrics of Life

I am not your data, nor am I your vote bank, I am not your project or any exotic museum object, I am not the soul waiting to be harvested, n...

I have a country it's invisible it has no flags or moonlight or river or mountain or clouds to understand heaven or flames to take desir...

I know flowers shine strongerthan the sun their eclipse means the end of times but I love flowers for their treachery their fragile bodie...

It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it. It has grown Slowly consuming the earth, Rising out of it, feed...

We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In sil...

When I left, I left my childhood in the drawer and on the kitchen table. I left my toy horse in its plastic bag. I left without looking at t...

We deserve a better death. Our bodies are disfigured and twisted, embroidered with bullets and shrapnel. Our names are pronounced incorrectl...

Not the attendance of stones,  nor the applauding wind,  shall let you know  you have arrived,  not the sea that celebrates  only departures...

Even here, you are growing. When August is approaching and you feel a little restless thinking about how this month might end and how this y...

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction’s looks, Making us look into ourselves so near, Teach us to know ourselves beyond all books, Or all ...

write me a poem in which all birds are prisoners of love and the only bloody war is between my fingers and the thorns of the rose i’m offeri...

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something...

If I had three lives,  I'd marry you in two. And the other?  That life over there at Starbucks,  sitting alone, writing -- a memoir, may...

लाखों मारे गए, जबकि हर कोई निर्दोष था। मैं अपने कमरे तक महदूद था।  राष्ट्राध्यक्ष ने युद्ध का ऐसा बखान किया जैसे हो कोई जादुई प्रेम-रस। मेरी...

Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin but: Do not take your walking shoes. Don’t take any clothes you’d wear anyplace anyone would see you...

There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if part of you never...

Tell them that I stood in line and I waited and I waited like everybody else But I never got called And I keep that scrap of paper in my poc...

I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of t...

The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by you. The night is your cottage indu...

लाल ज़री अरबी लोगों में कहावत थी कि जब कोई अजनबी दस्तक दे तुम्हारे दरवाज़े पर, तो उसे तीन दिनों तक खिलाओ-पिलाओ… यह पूछने से पहले कि वह कौन है,...