Twilight
She wouldn’t sleep tonight
Too loud it rained outside.She sighed and no one heardShe cried and no one stirred
She leapt and touched the sky
She had now learnt to fly
She landed by a stream
And woke up from her dream.Yet, she couldn’t sleep tonight
For too loud it rained outside.
Reality bites, they said.
She gnawed the words instead.
Her fumes of glory rose
While by her tomb, she stood close.
Leaving the sobs behind,
Of every sorts and kind.And she would sleep tonight
Even if too loud, it may rain outside.
Twilight
18 Octthe Longing
29 Aug“…listen to me”
I can’t speak
“…but you promised”
I swallow the words.
I wish I had spoken then
Reminded you of the vow taken
But,
I held my breath
choked back my words,
strangled and suffocated.
I suffered,
the hurt and the pain.
I wanted out
But I stayed in,
Longing for the exit
I fizzled out, I perished.
[I actually wrote this for Rant Poetry Competition but……]
I’m FREE
9 AugNo, don’t ask me where I am
How far in the distance I’ve gone
Don’t utter, why I did this
Not even what I’m doing
Or who I’m with…
But if you must, ask me how I am.
Whatever that I have become
Wherever that I may be dwelling
And if it all may count some day
If it’d be worth it…
The answers I know
I do not wish to answer,
And of the unknown I too seek.
For where I am, I can’t see it
Far enough into the future.
Where I dwell, I don’t have time
Brooding in the moments, gone.
So all I’ll tell you is I am living
Breathing in and out
Clinging to the bread I get…
Feeds sprout from the ground
Water spout from all around
Horizon is what I follow.
Sun keeps company, Moon lullabies.
Cold blankets me in winter
Heat warms me in summer
In autumn, I yearn; in spring, I dance.
Come what may, I can take it all
So if you must, know I am happy
And know I’m free…