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In such a night as this...

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I sit on the garden swing at the top floor, the white paint shimmering in resonance with the hue around it. Somewhere in a tree, a koel sings. I look up to the sky, and the moon sits, in all brilliance, yet in all peace.  The month, new. The night, ancient. And life, both.  In such a night as this, perhaps, the world welcomed the prince.  In such a night as this did he finally sit and closed his eyes, the eyes that belonged to the son who yearned, the husband who loved, the father who remembered. And the eyes opened again; the eyes that belonged to the enlightened one.  In such a night as this, the sage finally lay, with his being, in symphony and his heart, in peace, as he left the mortal coil. But The Tathagata didn't believe in the idea of soul, so what really left? Perhaps what the moon is to the moonlight, love is to the being.  In such a night as this, the magnolia and the jasmine frolicked around each other, of who'd enamour the rambler first. In such a n...
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Its a Lonely Day

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That title is just a System of a Down song I had been humming btw :) I opened this draft on Feb 14, and life kept happening. Now, April is slipping into its twilight, and the title is still here. I still dont know what date it will carry when I publish this. I didn’t know what I was writing then—and I’m not entirely sure what I’ve been thinking since. Its as if there's another guy in there who very quietly took over the phalanges and refused to let go.  So, this one finally drops today. This has lived on and off in the background, but I think I am finally ready to commit to this, and to maybe a few other things too. Commitment and its role in my life uptil now really confuses me. And I have been taught to be devoted; through the roman catholic boys school; through a teenage academic demolition derby; through heartbreaks, through doors closed on admiration, and on hands full of sweets; through the desecration of the sacred, and through confrontation with death. And I wonder — ...
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