Merak Magazine

How To Stay Alive

For myself and perhaps for some others it is all about watching, no, admiring the crystalline examples of intelligence found at times in the shade on a far-too-hot afternoon, those winged ones I share this staying-alive thing with flutter about…

The Dark Keys

I have the piano keys, Printed on my body. Black and white, Dull and bright. At some points, Notes are the darkest. At others, Just an unheard sigh. The darkest ones, Took the most beating. Play these together, To hear…

Origami Love

How does love survive? Amongst all the deception The shiny facades, Amidst the broken promises the banal lies that you weave and put a crown on my heart, for everyone to see. Your burlesque love barely surviving in the brittle…