Dancing with the Devil by the pale Moonlight

Somehow, I always find the festivities very depressing. All that meeting and greeting leave me drained. sometimes I wonder, how many words do we really mean?

We forward those text messages, we buy those packets of sweets and chocolates, and we smile! Oh! Do we smile!!

The smiles that don’t reach your eyes, the smiles that you always wanted to share with those special people in your life..

Smiles, as genuine as love these days.

Hollow, pointless, stop-gap. But what the heck, who bothers. Who notices??

As the world goes crazy, there are people who just want to sit in a corner, surrounded by their own dreams, shutting everything and everyone out.

Have you ever had such a Diwali?

Have you ever been in a temple and forgot what exactly you want to wish for?

When do you find yourself unable to wish for something? When you have everything, or when you are denied what you wish for, more than anything in this world? Even if its for a day, for a moment, for eternity?

Have you ever felt so incomplete without someone that you didn’t want to fill that space?

Have you ever known a smile that squeezes your heart?

Have you ever Danced with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight?

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Written to the tune of "With or without you" (U2)