An Orange Cloud

 August 2 nd   You’re never too old to memorize, you can never escape memorisation . Be it phone numbers, otp’s, to do tasks etc. the only thing about it is that, it’s hard.   Trail Of Thoughts- 21 Sto-rini- 17 When I was younger, I was that one student who scored well in a language exam foreign to her. Hindi. Ever since I selected Hindi as my new second language after preschool of it being Telugu, I aced all my exams. Did I perform better than my fellow Hindi students? Yes. Did I get the highest despite being a Telugu speaker? Yes. Did I understand it? No. I can comprehend Hindi, meaning I can decode it pretty well, but encoding, it’s not my cup of tea. My Hindi is book-smart type. My vocabulary is nowhere to be used now. More like, nowhen to be used. Whenever I spoke in Hindi with my friends, I would use the textbook-old version of the word. It’s quite funny. For example, instead of saying, “Yoo dude, that class was fire!” I used to say, “Oh comrade of mine, the lecture

 no its not about tiktok. I feel like I’m living every second. Tick tock tick tock tick tock I used to live in minutes and now it feels right when I say "I've been waiting for 30 seconds!!" It’s like I can feel the time pass by and not run by.   I can hear the leaves rustling In the breeze I can see the ants Walking in a band   I can count The number of times The curtain hit the window   I can count the hair on the sheep While I count the sheep   I can see the pores on your skin While you walk past me   I can see your eyes move While you are in deep sleep   I can see your brain churning While you're on a whim   I can hear the fan In slow-motion   It’s almost uncanny How everything goes so slow Yet I always run out of time When I’m with you.   I can feel myself blinking Breathing Swallowing Moving Sweating Tapping Burning calories   The seconds I second Or the seconds I dissent Th

  Our shadows on the wall When we were 7 of age We were so innocent and small But we didn't care   We danced We smiled We hadn’t a care in the world All we did was build "us" a future   Every other story we read Scared us to death When the people were separated But we tried our best to stay with each other.   Soon time proved us right We were meant to be We danced all night Just our presence made the world happy   We thanked the world On the day we have our vows It thanked us back by gifting Us a daughter so pretty   Soon she grew up With a pretty girlfriend We knew what she was up to But never said a word until she did   After years of togetherness Never feeling bored of one another   Like the shadows on the wall When we were so innocent and small Our daughter grew up loving love And spreading it with a dove   The shadows on the wall Were never wrong The walls with ears Heard our prayers