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Insomnia

I lie in bed; I toss and turn; in my head a thousand thoughts churn. I pull up the covers, I throw them off. I can hear my brain scoff. I feel the cool night caress me, its coaxes, it entices but, Stress prevails, tension impinges; sleep still eludes me. …

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Sunshine

A single ray fell, illuminated a tiny speck of Earth and from that marriage of light & soil, it took birth. Such was the love between land and heaven that when together, the sapling’s birth was a given.   A tiny life, so precious that took on a form of …

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A Hindu Marriage

A stranger’s hand clutched in mine, I walked the Saptapadi. Apprehensive of what the future held, head bowed like Draupadi. I walked around the yajna, as Hindu custom mandated. It was my wedding, so today; I was bound to another as was fated.   My father had done the Kanyadaan, …

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