I can leave the ward whenever I want to. This frees me of any fear as I wait all alone in the stillness of the after hour within its thick walls under a funky light. The end of the work day is marked by a clinging stillness. Devoid of all patients and personnel one becomes …
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As if…
As if this dust had never been a person And this right had never been wrong As if this debris had never been a city And this discord never been a song As if those divided had never been one And those invisible never belonged As if cruelty had never been pity And those vulnerable …
Reacquaintance
Photo by Kulbir So, this is it. Alone and starting over again. There is a teenage flitting of excitement in the pit of the stomach and youthful expectation at the back of the mind that accompanies new challenges and change at any age. It feels good! Getting reacquainted with yourself is grueling, intoxicating, surprising and …
Snippets of Life (from A to Z) “N”
THE LETTER "N" Noteworthiness nourishes. Not that she would know. She had never been noticed, not even as a child, though she had naively still believed, back then, that one day someone would. Instead, her fate was to be the neglected one. That person who would never experience nearness or nose to nose contact with …
Manu writes 