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I had this twin.

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I had this twin,
thin unseen,
with a weird walk,
or so it would seem.
‘He has no mind’,
people whispered,
but mother knew,
his just had a hole in it.

I had this twin
– a child in his teen,
and while we judged,
he watered the garden green.
He painted a bit on flowers,
and shooed away the bees,
and until I got back from school,
he would wait for me with the keys.

I had this twin
who hugged me at odd hours,
and helped mother during dinner,
after he had gifted her dandelion flowers.
He could not speak
so he would bow down,
and not get up
until she kept her frown.

I had this twin,
without pride and with remorse,
until he fell where I was jumping
while he pushed me away from the shore.
He thought that I would die,
while all it was was a dive,
so while he remains down submerged,
I’ll sleep a little less tonight.

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Photo Credits: Kristina Varaksina Photography

Fear me more than Medusa

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But fear me more than Medusa,
for my hair and for my locks,
as though they bear no poison,
they leave men rooted on the spot.
And they swoon when I blink,
and they believe me when I lie,
and they think that it be love,
and when I leave them they do cry.
so fear me more than Medusa,
for my eyes and for their spell.
They do not turn men to stone,
but to dust that flows in hell.
– Saransh Gupta

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When god was making women,
he meant them to be magicians
but he messed up,
and ended up with the wrong ingredients.
So he made them mermaids instead,
and he gave them legs after a century.
That is how the creature evolved,
with a kiss that granted immortality,
and a wrath that left you in shreds.

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Lost, found and lost

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The bone has lost its marrow;
the sun has lost its heat.
The heir to the throne has fallen,
and the king has accepted defeat.
The child has lost his mother,
and the father lost his wife.
What was the original sin
took away with it a life.
The lover slept with the lady,
and the baby was never born.
Mother with the unwanted gift
had taken the road forlorn.
“What will they think,
she had said and she had cried.
“We will run away”,
he had said and he had tried.
“Turn around”,
her husband had said,
“or I will murder the scoundrel
who took you to bed”
But she had leapt,
down down below,
and the lover had followed
and time moved a little slow.
He saw his lady smash,
and knew he would too.
Air then hit his skin
and like a bird he flew.
The husband screamed above,
and realized he had lost his fight.
His child watched the agony,
tender had been the night.
-Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

The Other Half

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The other half, is always the other piece of the puzzle,
like all of what we have been missing,
like a woman without her lips,
or a clown without his nose.
The other half, is always nothing similar,
like two souls of a singular banishing,
like Adam and Eve,
like a forest and its trees.
The other half, is always different,
like everything that makes you complete.
One of you has to hate olives
– to let the lover have them all.
One of you has to bleed
– to make the scars the other shall leave behind.
Everyone screams, but the other has to listen;
One of you has to listen, for the other has to scream.
They need not be beautiful,
just everything that you will never be,
and that is how everything fits.
The tall men fall for the shorter women,
and all older would fall for all young;
The introverts, they would always fall for someone dangerous,
while the healers, they would fall for the shards
-beautiful people scattered around in pieces,
left after losing a piece in one past,
and the other in the other.
Two singularities cannot clean a room,
like two cannot read the same book,
or drive the same car to the same journey.
Two people cannot be perfect.
No number of nobodys can be perfect,
but together, they can be complete.

– Saransh Gupta (Words of Wonder)

Artwork by Adam Clague Fine Art