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dreamcatcher

The world was painted red. A throng of people were running for their lives to save themselves from explosives raining from the sky. Some people had lost arms, some legs and some were entirely dead, gone far away from this sickening world. She had barely survived by taking cover in an abandoned house. Her will to live trickled like blood of people injured around her. But as she clutched her baby to her chest, she knew she had to make it alive. Her son deserved to see the better part of the world. And she would make sure of it, nomatter what it took. She closed her eyes and prayed to the heavens. "Please let this be a dream", she'd said and the world around her dissolved. Work didn't provide the respite she was hoping for. She had been having these terrible dreams for sometime now. In her dreams, she was always stuck in a war zone clutching a baby to her heart. The

A Fatal Combination

I kept looking for answers in you  Little did I know, You were the question And separation was all the answer I ever needed.  When we loved, we'd turn the entire world rosy, shouting our love for each other from literal rooftops. Other days, the love would just vanish making me question the reality of those feelings. Sometimes, we'd talk through the night and only stop when dawn would knock on our respective window panes. Other times, we'd go multiple days without so much of a hello. Somedays, you'd have your hands all over me and I'd be writhing under your touch. Other days, you wouldn't so much as hold my hand. We were always too much and never enough. A fatal combination.