November 9, 2022Love & DesireOuter SpaceEven in deep space, your love holds me down, Your embrace has weight, and keeps me coming, back around…
June 17, 2021Love & DesireUnsmoked Meat.How many times can I fall for a different version of the same mistake? I trip & I tumble,…
February 6, 2021Love & DesireLoose Rap.I wrote you a four page letter, we've been back, back, and forth, and forth, I really needed somebody, and you showed me my worth.…
February 6, 2021Love & DesireFairground.Read between the lines— the words often left unsaid. Worries that weaken the warrior, exclamations of love that go …
February 6, 2021Love & DesireLove Letter to Little Me.Dear little Kashif, I want you to know that you are loved, that you are worthy, and that you are worthy of love. Regardless of how…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireLife, It Goes On, Anyway.Allow yourself to exist, freely, for you are tiny particles of stars. Let your love light the way, when the world is cold and dark.…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireMuse.Make me your flamenco dancer under the fiery Spanish sun, hold me, in your arms, like a classical guitar, caress my body like its strings,…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireFleet Street.In London-town of yore but yet, even to this very day, slovenly bovine herd together on conveyor belts.…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireCough Syrup.You cut me open with contempt always as quiet as a coffin; a chemistry so callous that we left ourselves orphaned.…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireErose.At the junction of jilted lovers, where animation intersects with anxiety, antagazoned until I explode into an overdose of ennui.
November 11, 2020Love & DesireMother Christmas.For all the times your limbs howled from pain, but all you did was smile through the stress. Those nights when you would lie awake as…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireAftermath.Denial disparaged my destiny that dreary February morn, and an enternity of ache replaced your departure that left me torn.…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireBraille.Red—the sweet embrace of summer sun-kissed skin, orange is campfire heat against your hands whilst making smores. Yellow? The feeling of…
November 11, 2020Love & DesireAgápeNo eucalyptus leaf or salve could save her, aloe was even unable to alleviate the ache. Radiation scarred railway crossing ribs, a maze of…
October 6, 2019Love & DesireNarciso Rodrigues.Auto-erotic asphyxiating whilst gazing lustfully at his own reflection, Narciso was in disbelief at his own perfection. No need for a…
August 30, 2019Love & DesireDesign for Trauma.When my moods change without prediction, I withdraw into my shell. Like an ostrich obstructing its arrest, I plant my head safely into the…
August 30, 2019Love & DesireAgra.I love you, world wonder— like Shah's love for Noor Jehan erected a Taj Mahal in Agra. Like Mumbai city streets love …
August 30, 2019Love & DesireNoor.As noble as Noor Jahan, she nestles, like the fragrant nectar of nourishing neem. Unbeknownst to her, …
August 30, 2019Love & DesirePervasion.It is blurred lines and electric shock; when your brain declares war on your world, unleashing an endless barrage of twists and turns.…
August 30, 2018Love & DesireCherish Me In Chains.Like waxen residue atop a windowsill, or the smoky traces that outlive the candle, our love survives like hibernated winters, amidst the…
June 13, 2018Love & DesireSibling Rivalry.It must take incredible resolve to stay focused at the circus. For some, chaos is the buzz and pestering of a simple fly. It is a feat to…
May 25, 2018Love & DesireShakti.I stood there helplessly, drowning in defeat, darkened by my inability to breathe life into your rusted heart's resilient beat— a…
April 30, 2018Love & DesireCirconflexeHis arms unencumbered me, removing all signs of weakness, seasick though I was, I somehow survived through stormy season. …
March 28, 2018Love & DesireMamta.Your strained voice cries out to me, like the sage sitar. It sings a sobering song that transports me through sand. …