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Scanning Life

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We are all young, happy and full of life once upon a time. We went to school, ran and jumped, cried and laughed, had our first crush, our first love, our first job, which on every occasion lit up our eyes are made out hearts race. Times pass by, we miss out as we work, work harder than yesterday forgetting ourselves, get married, bare babies, bare the weight life weighing down on our shoulders with relentless responsibility. Now when we sit quietly, stiffing and skimming through the pages of a magazine or scanning through television channels, we have our memories to spell out our life gone past by only regretting the choices we didn’t make or chances we didn’t take!

New Year Celebration - A Short Story

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I will see you in the New Year, a message lit up Victoria’s silent phone a few hours before midnight. There was a wooden frame on the shelve, a photo of her old flame, reminding her of paraphernalia with a grin on her face, an essence rekindling relationship.

Bashfully, with friends surrounding her, Victoria refilled her glass with Cabernet Sauvignon, continued to turn over the lifeless pages of their wedding album, making memories come alive.

A few minutes, before midnight, the doorbell rang with two officers, with handcuffed state criminal and the fireworks broke midnight, celebrating their reunion.

©Shweta, 2020

Rearrange

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Olivia wasn’t sure how 2020 should’ve started.

She liked her simple furniture despite being worn, simple wintry jackets though a decade old. She was just satisfied with all the old appliances that worked fine although the models were outdated. She did not go shopping during the Christmas for purchase of new clothes or gifts in spite of her mother tried to drag her out of her gloomy room. She suggested making some positive changes to perk up the monotony looming their life.

Olivia made a decision. She’d keep the old bits & bobs, but rearranging it, her house will breathe new life in itself and leave a sparkle.

As for the light blue flower box carved out of wood, it’ll remain as is in the corner of her room! Olivia was in denial with what plight her two-month-old endured, keeping the little one's gubbins, not ready to meddle or rekindle the heart-wrenching memories.

©Shweta, 2020

Edges of Cracks - A poem

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With constellations ever-changing

Those are stars behind the eyelashes

born from fire & stardust

there is a lightning shine in the armor

seen through edges of the cracks!

Originally published on Medium.com

eDgY - A poem

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uNeVen…
making life an eDgY experience
learning to make way around it to fullest,
welcoming human experiences
often we forget broken edges of crayons,
creates beautiful exquisite work of art!

Originally published on Medium.com