Fading Memoirs --- Memoirs or memories, they are like butterflies, coming out of their cucoons and fluttering away with their beautiful wings, But sometimes memories are just like bees, they sting and leave scars forever. My memories are just not vague dreams, passing thoughts, old scribbled letters, and tainted polaroids; they are much more than that, My memories are certain smells of incense sticks that still linger with me from the day of my grandmother’s death; My memories are the perfumes that my mother wore on her wrist while dressing up for a dinner date with my father; My memories are the temple bell sounds on a breezy summer evening; My memories are the midnight loadsheddings and the silence that it brought along with it; My memories are not just music and chimes, they also contain my nightmare screams; My memories are certain seasons and certain scents associated with each season; litchis in summer, roses in spring, petrichor in monsoon, fallen brown leaves with pinecone shreds in autumn, and the smell of fog and mist interwoven in winter. My memories last with days when I wrote with gel pens and loved the art, Now, it is stuck with a keyboard that sucks out my energy and passion, Memories are also in the dust of gramophones and old cotton sarees put up for drying on the terrace on a sunny morning, Memories are also the kerosene lamp gossips and hand fan tales from maa and baba, Memories are also ingrained in us like cosmos in our DNA; They will forever stay. #flatlay #flatlayforever #flatlaytoday #flatlaylove #flatlaynation #flatlayinspiration #flatlayphotography #flatlaysquad #flatlayinspo #flatlayindia #darkacademia #darkacademiaaesthetic #aesthetics #lightandshadow #oldmemories #memories #musings #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryporn #poetsofinstagram #poems #poemsdaily #poemsofig #poemsoftheday #poemsofinstagram #soulphotography (at Lost Soul) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca6KgSxqNMx/?utm_medium=tumblr