As a kid, on a beach, I once tried to make a sand castle,
far away from the demolishing reach of oceanic waves,
but the dry sand just fell apart every time I tried to mould it.

I realised that the sand closer to the sea stayed moist
and that it was water that held the sand together.

I finally made my sand castle closer to the sea,
only to see it being washed away by the very thing that held it together. Water.

Some relations in life are like that. Too far, and they fall apart.
Too close, and they flow away.

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Made castle with sand
Suddenly waves came
Took away smiling face...

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I'm a sand castle,
built just to get destroyed
by the waves,
your ocean of love throws.

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Sand castles in my head,
washed away
by my saline waves.

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As a child, I used to play with sandcastles.
Though drained off by the waves it taught me that memories never fade.


-The Ecstatic Pen

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कच्ची उम्र
रेत के घरोंदें
आसमान छूता समुद्र
सिखाता हैं
ख्वाब देखना......
डूबती नौकाऐं
और रेत को बहाती लहरें
हकीकत। #sakhi..

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"Those sand castles that
kids make, dreams were
mine as such, when life
happened, it pulled me
with every wave, eroding
the sand under my feat,
breaking the castles built."

•Yet I stood there, waiting
for the sea to shallow it's
water. W A I T I N G .•

~For another castle to be built,
waiting for me to rule over.
'Cuz I am a women & a queen.
Raw, maleficent, and kind.

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Lies are like sand castles; they break down eventually, leaving only ruins behind.

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Sometimes I wonder if it’s you I miss,
or the person I was when we were ‘us’.

Sometimes I wonder if it was genuine,
or a one sided story I mistook for love.

Sometimes I wonder if it was a fairytale,
for nothing ever measures up
am I not dazed enough?

Sometimes I wonder if what’s passed
will let me be,
for I keep dreaming up a future
of sand castles in love.

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