Sporadic Whispers: Musings of a Part-Time Writer

It’s almost easy not to fall in love With your contagious smile That sets everything in place Tells me that everything is fine It’s almost easy not to fall in love With your beautiful smile That pierces into my soul Soothes my crying heart And brings out all the love in me It’s almost easy not fall in love With your dreamy eyes That shine like the stars in the sky Beckoning me to fall into their depths It’s almost easy to not fall in love With your pretty little nose That caught me out of no where Telling me that beauty is everywhere It’s almost easy not to fall in love With your soothing lovely voice That makes my heart beat an extra beat or two Telling me music is everywhere If one listens carefully enough It’s almost easy not to fall in love With the way you say those words That brings a smile on my face Telling me how weirdly wonderful you are It’s almost easy not to fall in love with you It’s almost easy not to

After the cold stormy days And the dark lonely nights From the frozen ground of winter Emerges a small yellow and green Bringing color and with it Hope and warmth Spring promises a new life And a new life it does give Everyone comes out of hiding As the flowers bloom And as the birds sing Come the monsoon rains  Or the hot summer sun These are happy days  But soon the green yellows And the trees strip naked Taking all that was And all that could have been Soon enough cold follows Some embrace it, some run away It’s beautiful if one spends enough time Even addicting to an extent But however long it may be The green will surely come And the frozen ground will thaw Giving another chance to grow again

"So how was the blind date?" "I don't want to talk about it." "It was that bad? What happened?" "I told you, I don't want to talk about it. It's too embarassing." "You just made me even more curious now. Come on man, except for our underwears we have shared everything with each other." "Alright. She was great. Absolutely perfect. And we have a lot of things in common." "Isn't that a good thing?" "Not when one of the common "things" we share is an uncle." "What!!!????" "Apparently my grandfather and his younger brother didn't see eye to eye to the point that they cut off all ties to one another." "Uh-huh. And?" "She is his grand-daughter making her my second cousin." ........ "Everything was going great untill we started talking about our families. It was so embarassing. We didn't even complete our lunch." ...

I let fear take the reins I thought it would make The best decisions for me I thought that Fear would protect me From being hurt Because it knew what I wanted And what I didn’t want I thought that it would help me Make the right decisions To keep the ones close to me Forever by my side But I was wrong It made me lose sight of what I had And what I could have had After having been in its “Protection” For so long I forgot how it felt to be hurt And that a little hurt is everyone’s share But I couldn’t handle the pain Because I had been, for too long now, In the warm blue hands of fear I know now, and I will never forget I can’t give in to fear anymore It will never hold the reins Of my life agian And I also know I will still be scared time and again But this time I will welcome it like a long lost friend And show it instead How wonderful it is To fall down once And come back stronger than ever

Life is confusing,  isn't it? It wants you to change And when you do It wants you to go back To being your old self I lost someone before Because I couldn't put my feelings Into words And now I'm losing someone again Because I can't shut up

Everything was so easy back then. People say that children don’t know what they want from life because they are immature, but the truth is we knew what we really wanted. And whatever we wanted, we wanted from our hearts and we knew that it would make us happy. And we knew what we had to do to get it. Then we grew up. Of course people may say that grown ups know better. That we make better decisions because we think everything through and decide on what is best for everyone. As children all of us wanted to become something; an engineer, a doctor, a musician, an army officer, etc. And we really wanted it back then. But after growing up we started thinking, about what others wanted us to become, about what would be a better choice for a better financial and social status. We started thinking about what people would say and think of us. And it’s not just about our decisions about  career , we think too much about things as simple as what we want to eat and wear. For instance,...

I still remember the first time I met him. It was just another Sunday and the kids in my neighborhood were playing football, 7 VS. 8, choosing to leave me out as always. I admit that I was disappointed, yet again, but by now I was used to this treatment. I climbed the small hill behind the school and made myself comfortable under the only tree that grew there. We talked a lot (well I did most of the talking because trees can’t talk) whenever I sat there feeling left out, which was almost every day. That day I felt as if someone else was there but when I looked around it was just me and Mr.Tree. I felt it again and this time as I turned around, this pair of black eyes stared right into mine. And things started changing for the good ever since. He was very shy, he hardly spoke and I never stopped since the day we met. I finally had someone to play with and talk to and who understood me. I no longer looked at my feet when the other kids called me names and made fun of me. My paren...

I start crying, Thinking about things that might happen I am filled with happiness, Thinking about things that may never happen I live not here, I live not there. I look in the mirror, It's not me who I see; I see someone I never wanted to be I am not not happy with that But I also had a dream And maybe dreams  Aren't always meant to be There's still a great many things I need to find about myself So until then I am only me.

Like a candle, I burn Knowing not when The light in me will go out Maybe I'll burn till the very end Or maybe a gust of wind will put me off Or maybe be replaced With a brighter light But until that fateful day I'll share my light Brighten the room as much as possible. I may not give you warmth; But I'll inspire it. Remind you that even in The darkest of days There is always a light And that there is always hope

We people are weird, aren’t we? Oh wait, that’s just me. Sorry for that. Even I am confused by the things I do from time to time like making decisions at the last moment. For instance, one day during my last vacation I was feeling a little stressed and my wallet was kind of empty. So I decided that it was a good idea to go out on a walk and refresh myself on the way to the nearest ATM machine. As soon as I stepped out of my house, I realized that the nearest ATM machine was too near and there wasn’t much walking distance for someone like me who likes taking long walks. Therefore I changed my route and instead of heading directly for my destination I started walking towards my old school. I took my time with the walk but as soon as I got near the school gate I had a change of heart and instead of turning right I turned left and kept on walking. It was in the early hours of the afternoon and I didn’t have much to do at home so I decided to turn my trip to the ATM machine longer than ...

“KADRINCHE beyond words” is a debut novel by Mr. Kinley Wangchuk who works for a private sector and who also happens to be a friend of my mother. So it was kind of inevitable for the book to land in my hands. First and foremost I would like to thank Mr. Kinley for the autographed copy and would also like to congratulate you on the debut novel and hope to see more of your work in the near future. As a person who aspires to write a novel of my own it is really inspiring whenever I read a book especially by a Bhutanese author. It helps me move closer to my dream even if it’s just a step. As it says on the back cover of the book, “KADRINCHE; beyond words” is a story of a family overshadowed by an unfortunate turn of events. This story is about Wangchuk and the ever changing journey of his life. It tells about how uncertain things are in life and how they keep changing. For one moment you think everything is alright and the next moment everything in your world turns upside down. Whe...

4/1/2016 Dear future son/daughter, This is your dad (from 2016). I don’t know if you’ll ever get to read this letter but still then, weirdly enough, I suddenly got the urge to write this. First of all I hope you are doing good, both physically and mentally, because with the changing time we can already see that children, especially in their teens, have a lot of problems mostly related to their state of mind. As for the physical health I am sure that your mom and I are doing a great job. And as for me I doing quite well and don’t have much to complaint about. Anyways let’s get to the point; I want you to know that I am thinking about how I want our relationship to be from now only. I also want you to know that I am slowly planning everything so don’t worry about anything. This doesn’t mean that I am going to decide everything for you and ask you to do things as I please and rid you of your freedom of choice. But you should know that as a parent I will have some expectations ...