Besides acting and singing, Ayushmann Khurrana loves penning couplets and poems. The actor often shares his creations that offer his take on love, life and the happenings around us. His poem describing the hardships that people faced during the Coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown last year, was appreciated by fans on social media. Today, on World Poetry Day, talking about how poetry has inspired him, the actor says, “Poetry is an expression of life, love, sorrow, pain and experience, and for me, it is my window to reminisce every single moment of my life. It can also be purely imaginative. A poet doesn’t have to experience utmost darkness or extreme mirth to write about varied emotions. They just have to be empathetic.”

The world of poems also offers him an escape route and a place to allow his imagination to run wild. Ayushmann says, “Poetry is a vehicle to daydream my way into a world of future possibilities. I have been an avid lover of poetry all my life, and I consider myself an aspiring poet. Robert Graves once said, ‘To be a poet is a condition, not a profession,’ and I absolutely believe this. I believe all human beings need to reflect, recount and recollect their emotions, life journeys, beliefs and experiences.”

He further shares, “For me, poetry is a mirror to my soul and I try and bare it all every time I write. I’m a deeply passionate person and poetry has always been spontaneous and instinctive.”

The actor finds the process of penning poems cathartic in nature. He says, “I would certainly encourage everyone to write without thinking about how it will turn out because I don’t believe that our deepest emotions can be judged by anyone. However, writing down those feelings brings a lot of clarity and stabilise the fragility of emotions that we go through every day.”