The Idea-smithy

So it’s that time of the year again, the time to take stock and look back. Funnily enough, for a compulsive organizer/list-maker like me, it isn’t coming naturally this time round. Even funnier considering it isn’t just year end but decade end and actually end of the first decade of the millenium and all that. [...]

He said,
To the people we love the most, we are a little bit crueler.
I thought about all the people I’ve adored and how they’d agree. Secretly so as to not hurt me. And openly just so they could.
He said it was because of a streak of sadism.
But I think it is precisely because we love [...]

Jack’s eyes lazily scanned the room, taking in all, accommodating none.
Gillian paused mid-speech, in spite of herself and her breath stuck in her throat. Then she caught herself and smoothly moved on, ramming her words into each other to create an artful slip of tongue. The ripple of amusement that passed through her listeners washed [...]

Meet me on the other side of the moon
And walk in shadows with me
It won’t be all dark
You put a gleam in my eyes
That will lead the way for a stroll into madness
I’ll take you right up to the edge, walking blind
But just on the brink,
I promise to tell you
And let you decide
Whether to take [...]

Sometimes,
you close your eyes
to shut out the whole world
Pretending,
you’re the only one in it
For a piece
of that illusory peace
 
 
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Sometimes,
you close your eyes
And leave them shut
Just to see if,
when you open them
the other person is still there
 
 
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Speakers interchanged
But the words stayed true.

He looks at her from the corner of his eye
Thinking she won’t notice
Secretly hoping she will
So secret, he won’t even admit to himself
She feels his look
Like sunlight, warm on her cheeks
Her eyes stay downcast
Shielded from his blinding gaze
Warmed nevertheless by its intensity
Then it starts to rain.

When we kiss, do you close your eyes?
Or are you looking over my shoulder to see if someone better comes along?
I keep my eyes open,
checking if you close your eyes!
How come you don’t trust me?
Because you don’t trust me.
How do you figure that?
Because you ask too many questions!