After a minute

… I realise the car is no longer moving and he is waiting for me to get off my phone so we can go in. […]

You deserve to be loved

…and I didn’t love you the way you wanted me to didn’t love you right didn’t love you as much as you needed me to […]

You, my friend,

…laughing the loudest while hurting the deepest Teaching me to laugh at myself, through hurt and hurdles It’ll pass. Or not. And I learned fast. […]

You are far away

…so I miss you across continents, I miss you hear your voice on phone in another city, I miss you hear your voice in the […]

I hear in your voice

…the emotions and memories of each of your last 29 years. And though your voice broke a long time ago, I still hear you before. […]

I remember the first time

…my mother told me she loved me. It was at the end of a dutiful telephone conversation across continents, as unexpected as it was terrifying. […]

I didn’t like her

…for a few years. There was a time when I thought she was ok company. But then she realised the power she had and took […]

Gallery of pain

My mistakes are snapshot, enlarged and mood framed with background emotions. For present castigation and future past reference. Your mistakes slip past you in a […]