Tag: regret

• Rain

  Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. – Roger Miller  I’m sitting on my balcony in a pensive mood, the rain augmenting recollection that’s usually half-baked these days, nebulous like the swirling greys in a paperweight, I don’t have a pluviophile’s tranquility, all I have is an ache that longs to find […]

  Nitin Lalit

  July 27, 2022

  Poems

  creative writing, depression, dVerse, grief, life, pain, poems, poet, poetry, rain, regret, sadness, sorrow

• Guilt

  Under a caliginous sky, on a mostly uninhabited planet, they marked her before leading her to her cell in the intergalactic prison. She knew the mark signalled something antithetical to an auspicious future and so she’d had it sliced away, leaving a scar. Her cellmate said it was futile, but she didn’t listen. The next […]

  Nitin Lalit

  July 19, 2022

  Short Stories

  allegory, creative writing, dVerse, flash fiction, guilt, life, mistakes, prosery, regret, short story, suffering

• If life has meaning

  If life has meaning, then do tell me what it is – Do whispers of distress become a din of ache Or do we wait in sorrow for unending bliss? I’ve walked beside these broken tracks, I’ve heard the hiss Of rusty trains. I’ve attended regret’s long wake If life has meaning, then do tell […]

  Nitin Lalit

  June 30, 2022

  Poems

  grief, life, meaning, pain, poems, poetry, regret, suffering, villanelle

• A terzanelle of regret

  I have no Piper’s charm but still, my errors trail Like rats, they swallow me without a trace of grace And you see a fragmented ship without a sail The mirror now reflects a bearded, nettled face A life filled with vicissitudes and seething hate Like a rat, it swallows me without a trace of […]

  Nitin Lalit

  June 24, 2022

  Poems

  depression, life, poetry, regret, thoughts