Smitten

Book excerpt: Stop. you need to stop. Breathe. Breathe in today’s gifts. Breathe. Breathe out all the love you have in you. From the euphoric highs of fresh romance to the endearing bonds of commitment, from the vacuum and plenitude in survival to the unconditional love of motherhood, Smitten celebrates the many facets of love. Exploring the mundane and the intricate in loving and living, Smitten is also about the propensity to fear and the ability to wrap that fear in unconditional love. Split into six parts, the poems in this collection navigate through the universal yet unique emotions and realizations. And every now and then, Smitten shows how being smitten is the only way you defeat death, not of the body and the soul but that of the zest for living, when it laughs at your face.