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Most of these poems were written during the turbulent twenties of my life. In the early twenties, one is pursued by the glorious uncertainties of life. It’s a slippery, exciting and critically opinionated path. Don’t worry, it’s just a surge of extra energy, nothing else. The stage is shaky and realities are yet to get a foothold. You trample a lot of turf like a young colt spraying legs in all directions and galloping just for the sheer causeless fun of it. Of course, there are consequences but they hold their miserable importance in the eyes of the elders only. To the youngsters they are just irritable speed-breakers on the thrilling path.
One’s hormonally buzzing self floats in a hazy mist of unripe, raw, juicy, sweet-sour tart of dreams and imaginations striking the moron mass of established norms. The hormonal-storms-fuelled beliefs, views, opinions and dreams create sparks and sometimes thunderstorms. Nothing wrong with that! That’s all part of our making. It’s a pretty noisy and shaky groundwork born of your ‘making’ that provides a bit of stability later in life. Ask anyone, most of us are very lenient and forgiving towards our youthful gallops even if these have given us many bruises after the hard falls. We wear them with pride like the symbols of our reaching the peak of the mountain.
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Sandeep Dahiya
Sandeep Dahiya (Sufi) is a versatile and probing literary voice whose work traverses fiction, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry with equal ease. Trained at the confluence of literature, journalism, and environmental science, he holds three postgraduate degrees—an uncommon synthesis that informs the depth, clarity, and ethical sensitivity of his writing. With over a decade of editorial experience at reputed academic publishers, Dahiya brings scholarly rigor and narrative grace to every page.
His books—Footsteps Lost, Verses from the Land of Farmers’ Messiah, The Night Sun, Faceless Gods, Beyond and Beneath, A Half House, Chimp, Champ and Chops, Lost in Red Mist, Ice Cubes on Desert Sands, Love: The Ultimate Alchemy, The Wicked Googly, and Lazy Ways to Truth—explore identity, belonging, faith, ecology, and the quiet alchemies of everyday life. Writing under the sobriquet “Sufi,” he seeks truth through empathy, contemplation, and a fearless engagement with contradictions.
