.
In the age of breaking,
all my classmates
swarmed to the dead pools in summer.
They ironed their skin with the heat I couldn’t bear.
With a smudged color on their lips,
their never resting pupils,
the pamphlets of their anxious laughter
that they passed to each other,
the crumpled remains they walked upon
they looked like imitations of greek statues
and love stories gone wrong.
They looked like people who joke about drowning and dying
and the love that killed them in their sleep.
“They are too young to know about love and pain”
someone said on TV,
even as we built an ugliest everlasting fire
out of the promises the world couldn’t keep.
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Hi,
I am Nayana Nair. I'm 28. Just a person who has tons of things to talk about....not much organized thoughts sadly.
I'm interested in all forms of storytelling (though I don't have the talent for it). So I like series, movies, novels, anime, and whatnot. I'm also really passionate about music, psychology, learning languages (I just dream big, too undisciplined to makes any actual progress) and literature. I am overall just a curious person who is interested in all kinds of things, as long as they suit my taste.
I always wanted to be a writer (and also a teacher)..But I don't think I have the skills required...this blog is just my attempt at becoming the writer I always wanted to be...Blogging for few years, I have realized I am more of a poet (although, I am not sure that I am good enough for that label)...I hope I realize more about myself through writing.
Thanks for dropping by!! Hope I didn't disappoint. :)
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it rains in my heart 
Nayana, I was following you before but just now notified that it was unfollowed🤔
Oh 😦 You know it happens a lot to me as well…maybe some issue with WordPress only…because I would be sure I was following a certain person and then after few updates , there will be no new notification. And the next time I visit that blog it will still give the option of following that blogger.
But very glad to hear from you dear 🙂 😀
Yes Nayana, same is happening here as well
Happy New Year 🙂 😀
Thanks a lot Nayana..Happy 2021
Well written
Thank you 🙂 😀
With pleasure🙏🏻
Hard to choose one favorite line but I’ll go with , out of the promises the world couldn’t keep. Amazing poem and truth. Thank you
Thank you so much 🙂 Means a lot 🙂
Really glad that you liked my poem 🙂
Have a nice day.
Happy New Year. 🙂 😀