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AISHWARYA JAYAL

Prose and Poetry

Welcome to a collection of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and abstract ideas curated from the very depths of your soul, now journeying back to you in the form of the written word. Herein are our desires, humanity, burdens, and journeys laid bare for us to reflect on privately, and yet, in the knowledge that we are not alone.

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The Black Butterfly

Aishwarya Jayal

Sep 26, 20201 min read

The Black Butterfly

"Help me!" "help me!" He cried out. His eyes were a mess of water and pain. Screwed shut one moment, pain. Open wide the other, fear....

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Five Letters

Aishwarya Jayal

Sep 22, 20202 min read

Five Letters

I think you had come to say goodbye, but I mistook you for a shadow, and, afraid, I kept the lights on. Don't be angry, my friend; I...

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One soul, two shadows

Aishwarya Jayal

Sep 14, 20201 min read

One soul, two shadows

The sound of muffled laughter, Tantalizing giveaway of hide n seek. One we've been playing for years. The hiding itself is now hidden,...

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Lucid Mirrors, mirror lucidity

Aishwarya Jayal

Jul 3, 20202 min read

Lucid Mirrors, mirror lucidity

Today I saw myself in the mirror; One of those rare moments of clarity. I'd cleaned that mirror so good, I could almost see into my...

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We object - to be 'locked' in a 'room'

Aishwarya Jayal

May 7, 20201 min read

We object - to be 'locked' in a 'room'

What am I? An Object. You hold onto my "intelligent brain" because that's a rarity you think my gender functions without! You "admire" my...

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A spider and a honeybee

Aishwarya Jayal

Apr 24, 20202 min read

A spider and a honeybee

And you spun forth, another thread, Another yarn for me to hang by, Love, oh love, Why did you have to lie? Lie should be, you next to...

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Anxiety

Aishwarya Jayal

Apr 13, 20201 min read

Anxiety

I can feel it again. it's building, brick by minute, thought by moment. it's a disease, and I can't stop it; love ferments; Festers,...

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A sole for the soul

Aishwarya Jayal

Apr 13, 20201 min read

A sole for the soul

Oh no! It's time to go to the cobbler again. I never knew it was so fragile, I never anticipated the weak frame. The pieces are so small,...

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Petrichor.

Aishwarya Jayal

Apr 10, 20201 min read

Petrichor.

It's raining again. It's been raining an awful lot lately and even when the sun is out it feels damp, dull, lackluster. The earth smells...

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