Keren

“Draw the curtains and let them fall
cry your worries and let the fear stand tall.
Lie on the bed and throw the ash on the ground
and let the darkness surround.
Pull the plug before the sunrise brings false hope again and tries to take your pain away.
Curtains fall as the the scene ends
and disappears like happiness in the air.”
― Shillpi S Banerrji

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I Am My Teacher (Sonnet 1234)

I teach myself when I need to learn something,
I correct myself when I make mistakes.
No two year old shaped as 40, 50, 60 or 70,
Has the maturity to provide me moral guidance.

I taught myself electronics when I fell for it,
I taught myself music in my youthful high.
I taught myself languages in sheer obsession,
I taught myself aeronautics when I wanted to fly.

Critics mail, I should add "biggest ego" to my bio,
I thank them all for an astounding revelation.
If I actually behaved befitting my capacity,
Half your legends will lose their reputation.

You only see the tip of the ice-berg,
Fullness of the Himalayas you'll never see.
I chose to put many of my passions aside,
One path, one mission - one answer to calamity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis