Shail’s Nest

……..continued from the first part: Danny and others…..

The little Martians with big plans disproportionate to their own size wanted German Shepherds and/or Labradors. Awww… I mean who wouldn’t want them?? But I paused to take a look into the future and saw myself walking an energetic dog, all out of breath and panting (Me not [...]

Losing him left an unbearable ache in my sixteen year old heart. I vowed never to have another one again. He had been a perfect bundle of joy, all white and fluffy and cuddly and had been with us for only a month. Yet when I lost him just like that one evening, my heart [...]

Dreams…
Of waking in your arms
To the beats of your heart
Every single morn

Dreams…
Of a shared cup of tea
Beneath the sprawling tree
Just you and me

Dreams…
Of my head on your shoulder
Listening to you sing
A song of love

Dreams…
Of the falling rain
Drenching us as it pours
And we kiss

Dreams…
Of being together
Two bodies but one soul
Now and forever
[...]

When you enter the Old Hostel (nothing of the old structure remains at present) of yore at St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam, past the room below the staircase which houses Mary thaathi (the warden’s unofficial ears and eyes, dressed in chatta and mundu in the typical Kerala Xtian style), you find yourself in a sort of [...]

Frozen tears cold as ice
clogging up ducts
too hard to flow
in warm rivulets
down alabaster cheeks
lightening grief
carefully padlocked
in iron chests
away from eyes
that probe and seek.
Frozen tears cold as ice
trapped powerless
struggling to flee
in tiny gasps
of shallow breath
through tinier gaps
cracks and fissures
in a door tightly shut
to ease a heart
bowed down with weight.
- Shail Mohan (Jan 2008)

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