Moon so close

Pardon my shameless staring,
ignore my useless gawking,
forget my senseless stammer
and my obvious misdemeanour

For never before
have I seen the moon
so close. 

Quotes that have occurred to me - 2

1. Every character of a novel is made in the image and likeness of the author.
2. A birthday is nothing but earth completing one revolution around the sun. If that is a cause of celebration then every moment deserves celebration because earth completes a revolution from some reference point in every moment. So every moment is a new birth worth celebrating. 
3. Behind every gym is a pot bellied businessman.
4. I didn't give medicine to my sick mother because I was too busy posting "Mother's Day" messages on Facebook and WhatsApp.
5. "The objects in the mirror are closer than they appear," says the rear view mirror. Wish we could say the same about relations.
6. Man invented morality. Nature knows neither virtue nor vice. It knows only consequence, which man colours as reward or retribution.
7. The real freedom is in being internally neutral, neither for nor against anything.
8. Every question is not a sign of defiance. Every silence is not a mark of diffidence.
9. We never really grow up, nor do we outgrow our toys; we simply replace them with new ones.
10. Love at first sight is actually a carry forward from previous life.
11. Envy is great for earth. It makes the world go green.
12. The darkness in life is a prism that reveals the twinkling stars.
13. The file that makes an otherwise light email heavy is called attachment. How profound!
14. Those who follow their hearts become performers; the rest become audience.
15. Good is a sweeter fiction than bad; but it is a fiction nonetheless.
16. Beware - if you cannot 'be aware'
17. This year let's go somewhere we rarely go - within.
18. The person who said 'Knowledge is Power' hadn't tasted Awareness.
19. There is so much more in the moment than we allow.
20. Life doesn't have full stops, it only has commas.
21. The universe is one great story. I am and will be telling only a small part of that.

The gift of the setting sun

The setting sun left me a gift.
It made the whole earth my shadow.