Tell Me No More of Enchanted Days

(Venus Emerging from the Sea - Titian C.1525) Coming up for Air I'm the ugly girl in the glasses, the tied up hair, the elephant foot, the oozing of weakness, the change of a Christian Dior girl into a fumbling, crying, needy idiot. Come on, don't tell me you never saw through the mask before? Don't tell me you never knew how plainness was my hidden wound, buried deep inside years of failure, covered up in tattoes, shawls, smells of exotic perfumes? Didn't you see the strength was delivered from the need to be strong? The rain fell in pours, on my messy, unbridled hair, the waves dragged me in, unbuttoning my high heeled shoes. Seeping water, disinfectant, burning salt, years and layers of trying to break free, the rouge trickled on my cheeks, where tears had flown before. Scared at first, I step out gingerly, I emerge, defenceless, faceless, bare, I emerge pure and unafraid, this time not nervous or caring of what the naked people on the shore think of my tattered gow

Identity These are the days of lost confusion, of sleepy thoughts, and lingering doubts. Childhood is gone, left watching behind like the waving hands of loved ones at the station, and you at the door, moving away... Youth is at its peak, but its thrills are dying, like the taste of chocolate drowned by a glass of water. The future lies ahead, unknown, scary, exciting, like the beating of a heart, in a moment, as it witnesses a stranger's face, Accidental, like love at first glance. Life has nothing to do with age. Lives lived in one, lives lived in many, lives lived before by those, who pass on moments captured is the path we are on. Life unlived, starting all over again, like a child learning to walk, like dancing in the first rain all over again, forgetting last year's wetness, is the path to the future. Think carefully, watch intently. Life is about to begin, it's around the corner. Look out my love... Life is coming your way... (For my darling sister)

Shooting Off I read so many quotable quotes by people who are already famous, that I decided it's high timeI put down some of my own :)) or rather things that I most often say. To start off on an apt note, "Modesty is not just bullshit, it's also self degrading." "I have a special radar that calls out to the fucked-up." "If you learn to respect your past, your future will respect you." "History repeats itself, just that in my case, I'm always the fossil." "I don't need a man with balls, I need one with four." "All conversations don't need to start with a Hello. Most of the time I end up asking strangers if they've got something to eat. Trust me it works!" "All kids are little weirdos. I was a tomboy with a bad habit of talking to eunuchs. As adults, we are no less different. Just that now I prefer talking to them." "Single women are not desperate. They just want someone who can finish off