This poem speaks about the different shades of a queer person and the fear he goes through.
Tag: longing
Reflections of Every Age
An essay on the different learnings that we imbue at different stages.
Yours, Truly
The poem explores the speaker's hopeless romanticism for a crush via their imagination.
My Lips Stitched
The poem expresses queer love, longing and the emptiness of unrequited attachment.
‘My Gayness Won’t Make Your Child Gay, Uncle’
A poet from a middle-class family in a small town writes about the daily turmoils of being queer in a homophobic world.
How Does One Become ‘Man Enough’?
'I still ask myself, what if my mother never gave birth to me?'
Phobics in the World
A poem against various injustices caused across the fabric of history in the name of social phobias like homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and many others.
Queerness Is Infinite
Being a queer person is like being a ghost where you have to find places to hide and yet people get scared when they find you.
Growing Up Queer: A War With the Truth
A poem on internalised homophobia and the corpse of my childhood.
Grief Sits With Me Every Time I Look for Love
Grief tells me that I am neither damaged nor hurt, I am just longing to find little spaces of kindness.