I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams

How to get your life together will look different for different people. This is how (I think) it looks for me.

Fawning over the moon, stars and the overcast sky and mumbling about the foolish, demanding heart.

'If there was one thing I hated most in the world, it was prudishness. I had been reprimanded by prim and proper people so many times that even the memory of them was enough to send a shiver down my spine' -- from The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.

Chapter 1: Stand At Ease. From Surbhi From The Sidelines -- novella by Gauri Priya Bora.

For once, that old trick of trying to numb out feelings won't work.

But then...nor do you want to. Do you?

A human with a heart — would be nice to be something like that.

At times like these, I pretend not to be aware of how much I'm smiling,

Purely from the sheer overwhelming joy

Of being able to feel so much at once.

The appendage that would have kept

My tempest a secret,

Now stops beckoning,

mesmerized at the safe haven standing

Right in front of me.

Spoken word shorts

Short Spoken-word poem written and narrated by Gauri Priya

A poem of gratitude