I love people who smile at me. They expect me to smile– neither an affable orchid nor an ecstatic anklet, yet I smile. I wait after the congregation...Read more
Bidya B.

Poet. God. Sinner. Period
First Post, Super Fan
Before the night ends I want the love That no one dares to claim. Before the night ends I want to lose myself Within you. The glory of darkness Rhyt...Read more
the petals curl and brown at the edges, then rot all the way through. I can't help but tend to this graveyard of flowers. you can know something is de...Read more
[after the summer day by Mary Oliver] Who made these summer days? Who made these mangoes? Who made the bougainvilleas? Who made my Siberian cat— who ...Read more
I am crying on my kitchen floor because the batter of a cake I would have given you has separated. I know it is just butter and sugar and eggs but tha...Read more
Overall I'm happy Healthy And not chained. Food is never too far And I don't have to walk for water. I have linens for my chest And leather for my f...Read more
So say we kill life And Never bring it back ---------------------- People don't want to exchange Yet tell them to change
(After Mary Oliver) I worry most of the time, Will the mangoes rot? Will the marigolds wither before my twenty-first birthday? Will the Ebola virus...Read more
Pinned
Sentenced to relive the night, Scented with a steel's delight. A lustrous orb at the central core, Essential to the shadow's lore. A sword to slay th...Read more
Can I just go home please? This place has the cruel ghosts of people leaving, The people that I'd started calling home, So can I just go home please?...Read more
I've never been chosen, Not at least as the first choice, My eyes are misty as they say this, I'm not even their second choice. They do need me, But...Read more
Lately I been losing sleep. Falling deep where nightmares creep. Where love is gone. Sorrow became obsolete. Where the inner demons play with my heart...Read more
I sat at the bus stop, heel tapping out impatience against the pavement— I can’t be late again. My eyes kept falling to my phone, like it might move ...Read more