Audrey's Meraki

On the dim light street  I saw you lonely Under the rusted wooden pleat With none as your only It melted my heart  The way you stared  With little brown eyes Longing to be cared As I rushed towards you You leaped in joy To cuddle me in  With a naughty coy Licking off the tiny bits Of powdered biscuits Acknowledging the care With wet nose rubs  and an awed glare This world has been cruel  To take you away With every inch of me I wish you could stay  I wish I could love A little more  Cuddle you longer  To my heart’s core My heart cries now With the thought of you gone To never return Even for the red at dawn I’ll search you in the skies  Amongst stars shining bright  To light my little world  When darkness consumes the night  - Audrey . C

Ingredients: Flour 1-1/2 cup Cocoa Powder 3/4 cup Granulated sugar 1-1/2 cup Oil 1/2 cup Coffee in boiling water 1/4 cup Eggs 2 large Buttermilk 3/4 cup Semi-dark Chocolate 1/4 cup Vanilla extract  Baking soda 1/2 tsp Baking powder 1/2 tsp  Procedure: STEP 1: Whisk eggs and sugar together. Add vanilla extract. STEP 2: Add cocoa powder and beat in the mixture gently. Now, add oil and blend in well STEP 3: Add flour while continuously mixing the batter. Add in Baking powder and Baking soda. STEP 4: Add melted chocolate and buttermilk together and stir well. Lastly add to the mixture coffee syrup. Make sure everything’s blended in well and no lumps are formed. Your Batter is ready! Baking:  Preheat the oven at 180 Degree Celsius. Bake for 12-15 minutes. After cooling decorate with Chocolate Butter Cream or Heavy Chocolate Ganache. You are ready to serve!

Dedicated to all my teacher’s, the ones who strived to make me the person I’m today! An undetermined road With mixed feelings In a doomed adrift Seemed to abode Clueless and lost  In the abound. With your mindfulness  My identity was found. You helped me fix My sights on high. For dreams to follow Only limit was the sky. With an utter resolute You noticed in my hide  amplifying those skills That were bottled inside  You showed me the way To live with content, To spread hope and love, With a selfless intent. Your footsteps I walk upon Inspiring little minds To be the guiding light, They strive to find. For years to follow These moments will last  to visualise life, Through a different glass. - Audrey. C

When you feel  Life’s in a bounce. Thinking you missed the only golden chance. Just know that, I loved you once! When you only see black and grey. Thinking life’s lost its way  In its every single ounce. Just know that, I loved you once! When you’ve been  Drifted all alone. Far away disowned  In a separate zone. Just know that, I loved you once! In the very few times You think of me. When memories  Make you heart heavy. Just know that, I loved you once! - Audrey. C

I never dreamt in my wildest  How grievously I would rue  On feelings I confided in Which were dreadfully deceptive  Yet, I held tight onto them  Until I couldn’t sustain my grip Little did I know, My feelings would be ripped! The pain fiercely slaughtered  Every feeling that had grown  My heart vigorously cracked I could feel it in my bones! My lungs deeply ached Screamed and silently wept Because it was the only piece Of my heart, that was left! Broken and bleeding  It stained my soul  I could still breathe, But will never be whole! I was living a beautiful lie, “Maybe I could be loved”  Inspite of the why’s, My mind had never approved The heart shivers now at the very thought of love I feel buried alive, In an abandoned grave! Broken heart and silent tears Of which life is made up perhaps I’m drowned in this pain With an hypnotic collapse! - Audrey. C

Have you ever wondered  Inside your comfort zone, About lives that are surrendered Lost, forgotten and gone? The breath of freedom, On which you survive.  Is a blessing from the martyrs Has gratefulness not yet revived? Whilst you unnecessary whine, On things not working fine. The blood stains on the ground  Still evidently shine! The silent tears strolling  Of mother’s, daughters and wives Pleading for the return  Of dreadfully lost lives! This agonised wait  Of their only beloved  Now encased in the tricolour  Has left only memories engraved! - Audrey. C

I don’t feel the way I used to, The skies are more grey than blue. I can’t see the sun shining Darker clouds have gathered through. This heart feels the emptiness  With thoughts in brutal mess. The sting of anxiety   I still cannot suppress. I don’t feel the way I used to, My peace has gone with you. I crave for belonging These feelings can’t bid adieu. The uneasy loneliness  Is killing me with a steady pace.  Even amongst a bunch of people Only abandonment I do trace. I don’t feel the way I used to, My heart is burning through. Every last piece that’s left, In a rapid fierce spew. - Audrey. C