The Prelude
This has really been a long time coming. I say that not only because I’ve been thinking about it for a long time now, but also that I’ve been filling up my personal diaries with thoughts and scraps of imagination that could easily have fitted into a personal blog. What kept me waiting all this time was perhaps an overwhelming sense of possessiveness towards my own thoughts and feelings. My writings have always been very close to my heart, as honest an expression of myself as only a few people closest to me know about. Now, after 3 years in college, having experienced some of the good, bad and the ugly and having seen a little bit of the world, my heart tells me it’s time to let go. To let go of those painted butterflies I have been holding in my palm for long—now I think they are strong enough to fly! I am not a religious person, although there are certain things I worship—poetry is one of them. Poetic expressions are everywhere, but most of all they are in your mind, intertwined in e...