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The gush of water slams the banks, Not a drop to touch my feet, I flow streamlined, lack sharp corners, Purloined tranquillity engulfs the limbo, It no longer reeks of anticipation, An antagonist built of mirrors, Losing twice, thrice, the number ensues, A hollow drum to be played again And generate music, though, not in vain.

-D.N 17.7.2026

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Game over—

All we need to hear is a beautiful lie

An untrue melody that fiddles with the heart

Giving the defeated soul, a hint of hope

To win again

In the unfair game called Life

Where no one's a winner, and no one's a loser

All we are, are mere players

Playing to live,

Cheating on death

Running from something

Running for something

Trying to escape the harsh truth

Disguising ourselves in superficial joy

Hiding from our inner regrets

With a broken heart

And a fucked up mind

We play in hope

Sometimes a lie can heal wounds faster than love

It's a cafe—

We expect love from strangers

Serving our coldness to the close ones

It's like a subway—

We board the train of delusions

Leaving the reality behind

Being hard on ourselves

Trying to be someone we're not

"Oh he just wants attention"

But we change for the sake of others

To see that faint smile

Struggling to find a reason to live

A reason to love

But who am I to judge

Who am I to say

I'm also a player

You can never see both sides of a coin

I'll just flip mine

Accepting the fate

Playing by rules

Win

Lose

Who cares

I'm running the track

Even if it isn't the one I was meant to run

I feel like I'm flying

And I wanna take u with me

Just grab on

Let's fly

Let's win together

Let's lose together

At the end,

It's that smile I breathe for

Let it be the one I'd run for

So tell me...

Will you be with me,

When the Game's over?

~

Wider Halls

Twin flames burn the hallways

Moulting hallways cut my skin

My presence alone is an absence

Repelling myself, yet again

The corridor, it grows further apart

Wider halls and wider spaces

No longer crush me, loneliness

Claustrophobia is a tight hug

These tight spaces I yearn

A press over my chest, my heart

Beats over the pressure building

Suffocation we consider love

-DN

13.6.2026

A Flightless Bird that Flies

"Spread your wings", they proclaim

To the ones who cannot fly,

The fallen who choose to walk,

The flightless birds we are,

That glide and tumble down.

My arms holding you above the clouds,

May they shape your worth and be your guide,

A part of me I slice on your behalf (my wings),

For mine shall stay below the heavens,

Hoping the arm that left mine will return,

For that, I shall sacrifice.

-D.N

22.4.2026

Some books leave you wondering how they were even allowed to be published

For example, I love romantasy (I'm not bashing the genre btw), but some books lack both well-written romance and well-written fantasy

Ofc anyone is allowed to write; It just hurts that SO MANY new authors with well-written books often never get the chance to show their work to the world

Especially with the rise of gen ai in creative fields, it has become difficult to differentiate actual good work that took effort from a lazy writer who fed their work to gen ai to make it look "well-written"

Walls

This wall I keep safe, myself preserved,

Sheltering me from the rain outside,

I hear a knock, resounding through the room,

A fellow stranger peeks inside, drenched down,

"May I enter?" she said "It's cold outside"

She's built of grace, empty eyes to stare into,

She's of no harm.

Water runs down her arms, the drops falling down,

A floor once dry left to be dried again,

The rain enters through my now broken wall,

My skin, where it runs down like teardrops,

It is of no harm.

She offers me food, a variety of flavours,

Resistance leaves my body, I let myself consume it,

My body feels numb, the lingering feel of teardrops

are all I sense, I lie down, my eyes can't help themselves,

It is of no harm.

Her tales leave her, entering my body,

The sweet stories that now tear me apart,

Planting themselves in the land inside me,

The land now consumed by her.

It is of no harm.

She leaves as quickly as she arrived,

Carrying her stories in her brown satchel,

Left to meet her next victim, for I'm long gone,

What was once mine is now hers,

My mind, my sorrow, it is now tainted with hers,

The rain sweeps through the broken walls.

-D.N

12.4.2026

Rebirth

The dew whispers a tragedy

The fire burning the remanents

The roads that compressed

the world underneath, cracked open

What once held the fate of millions

The fire now molds the shattered glass

Melting into a new form to be held again

The new flower that blooms inside

It grows, awakening the new beginnings

The new world it welcomes with grace

Amidst the relentless chaos ensued

And hearts stolen from the living

For our hearts remain made of steel

The flame which burns brighter than ever

Encasing a piece that survived the fall

Reviving newborns of the next fate

-D.N

8.3.2026

A Letter to the Unspoken

A letter to the wallflowers,

Who trace their shadows along the walls,

The stems that struggle among the vines,

The whispers amongst the noises,

Merely telling their story through signs,

One never decides to decode them all,

The push they give themselves to shine,

Why must a flower live like a dog?

Seeking attention when none is given,

To reach out till their stem breaks,

All they need is a drop of water,

A gentle song, a voice to give,

All we can do is water the plant,

And watch it bloom with the vines

-D.N

13.8.2026

Irony

There are many people that control my life

The one who asks for forgiveness

And the one who aims for revenge

The one who takes the blame

And the one who blames the others

The one who showers in praise

And the one who desires the silence

A lost soul waiting to be loved

And a soul who desires hate

An irony, that's what I am

Encased in covers that tear bit by bit

Showing pieces that should be seen

To the person in front waiting

Isn't that all that we're about? -D.N 16.1.26

"Finish the dam book" i say with 4 unfinished works and a notepad of ideas i nvr started cos they weren't good enough

In Another Life

Your smile that drew me in This world made to be lived in Ignited a new purpose within me My darkest day gained a light By your lantern flickering rapidly For me but never for yourself Your presence alone is enough For taking it further is a dream A dream only I experience Gold is a value I see in a different light By your eyes which held the stars And my life in your heart Time brings us back to the reality One which only I see in the lens Wish I realized that silence is the end That changes occur in the slightest amounts The jump that lay behind you Wish I'd noticed it Held your hand Told you not to leave In another life Ill do it again

-D.N

Ps: man i love doomed couples who are not actually a couple

Try to guess which show its based on :) answer is in the tags

Reality to Idealism

"Cowardice is what shrouds these men"

said Reality, emerging from the skies,

"Fear that shrinks the mind of others,

Dreaming worlds they cannot recover."

"Look at you, the desperate soul

Who treads these roads to reach the sky,

Who picks a pebble to pray it flies,

The one who holds their knives so tight"

"Does a flowerless plant ever bloom?

Does a metal turn into gold?

A stone that leaks the secret of eternity,

Idealism is the death of humanity"

"Presumption makes the start of the spiral,

Travelling down the endless stairway,

To life that ne'er exists anyway,

Do you understand what I say?"

She looked at him with sincere eyes,

"Idealism is the pursuit of madness,

For madness exists inside all of us,

Fueling our spirit, replenishing our worth,

For it marks the beginning of birth."

"Birth of wishes which people pursue,

The lighthouse guiding sailing ships,

The thread that holds the bridges,

The Madness is what paves your path."

-D.N 7.12.2025

Facade

Your words that never speak,

Your voice that never shows,

Your actions are the ones,

That buried my soul.

You once planted me here,

In your garden of green,

Fed me your words so gentle,

Acclimatising me, adapting me.

Shaping me into a version of myself,

A version that loved a lovely friend,

You cared so much to know that well,

Smothered me with your words to tell.

Sounds everywhere answer my call,

"Why blame time, pray tell,

When your friend was the assasin,

and you were the prey"

This meaningful life that you carved,

Shattered by a single tear in the film,

The image you built to my standards,

Shrouded in secrecy all along.

Abandonment is a sin which you committed,

One I held in my heart all this while,

The hand that clenched my chest in pain,

I let it go, healing the sting in my throat,

the tears, the sorrow

the times when you saw me truly

the times you cried for me

your love

and mine

I let it go

I let it all go.

~end.

-D.N

11.3.2025

Yin and Yang

There lay two sides of a coin,

A hope in every loss,

A rainbow to every shower,

A peace to every war,

Yet one choice needn't be better,

The black and white and grey within,

We all lie in the center of chaos,

Where life decides to seals its men.

-D.N

18.10.2025

A Second Chance

I wish I had another chance,

To pave my own way,

To follow the Road not Taken,

The alternate say.

To choose my words unregretful,

Clear the ones to tarnish my name,

The filthy fillers of conversation,

The critical gaze of others.

I wish to erase the ignorance,

Once deemed as innocent,

For ignorance is no bliss,

But rather, a curse to bear.

But also rid of knowledge,

I bear with a heavy heart,

The ones that never guide me,

The ones I cannot carry.

I wish that life were simple,

To see the times that passed,

Feel the touch of infancy,

Yearn for a second chance.

-D.N 11.10.2025

Pull the plug

Pull the plug that held my words,

Strangling them with ease,

The pained precision of a blow so tight,

Hurling them back,

Retreating back into my lungs,

The pressure falls,

Words disappearing into the mist,

That held all the answers to my dismay,

When all I said was "I'm okay".

-D.N 18.9.2025

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