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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Where the head is held high.


If you can board that train and say goodbye 
even when the numbness of her cold hand 
doesn't let it rise to you.

If you can reach your house 
knowing that she would keep loitering on station platforms before reaching hers.

If you can stay in that house angry
saying you are solving problems, 
without having solved what you left behind you at the station.

If you can keep getting angry over her past that can't be changed, knowing that you are burning your own present, and hers.

If you keep smothering the self confidence she gained after so much of toil,

Either she will diminish and die.
Or she'll pick herself up again,
keep walking in this mad crowd.
Cold and alone. But with her head held high.

No love which diminishes you is love.



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  2. There is no wild beast dude. This is a perspective on my understanding of one aspect of a relationship through which most people go.
    Nothing less. Nothing more.

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  3. Beautiful lines Mam thoughts are expressed from deep bottom of heart

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    1. Haha. Thank you.
      Depends from person to person.
      I write because it makes me a better person.

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  6. Well said Ma'am . This can mould many misconceptions from society in right direction.

    No love which diminishes you is love.
    Like, for poor people family is weakness which should be strength instead.

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  7. I don't know what poetess wants to express with these lines only I could somehow able to relate it with Rabindranath's Geetanjali
    "WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR
    AND THE HEAD IS HELD HIGH".
    Keep your writing passion alive

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  8. मेरे जितना ही खारा है,पल पल पीता पीर बहुत,
    बाहर से नटखट है सागर,अंदर से गम्भीर बहुत ।

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