25.1.10

Devastated

To J,


Lost self, lost me
Consumed by need
Getting hurt, Hitting dirt
No way to revert

Devastated, Desecrated
Cannot at all be vindicated

Crushed for sure
Nowhere to go
Burned out, wasted
Forever blasted

Devastated, Desecrated
Cannot at all be vindicated

Those muffled screams
Trampled dreams
Alive but dead
Unnecessarily bled

Devastated, Desecrated
Cannot at all be vindicated

Anguished and marred
Scaled and scarred
Pride bereaved
Love misconceived

Devastated, Desecrated
Cannot at all be vindicated

Emotion to emotion
No justification
Unseen and unheard
Obscure and absurd

Devastated, Desecrated
Cannot at all be vindicated

Sightless and soundless
Mindless and boundless
Disgraced, unemployed
Abnegated, a void

Devastated...




 ... because he asked.

24.1.10

Ask Me :)

How does it feel to be told you can’t do the one thing you believed with all your heart you could? How does it feel to give up everything for that one thing and fail at it? How does it feel to raise the bar of expectations- others’ and your own- only to fall flat on your face? Ask me. :)

18.1.10

FREE


(Picture courtesy: Affirmative Thinking)


 A ghostly presence,
A mere memory, an essence
And nothing more, so
That you wouldn’t know
The pain.

Whisper the words to the wind,
You would; perhaps chagrined.
An aura, ethereal I’d choose
To be. Never too close
To attain.

No arms you could hold,
No sight to behold.
A mystery, a floating mist,
No lips to kiss
Or complain.

Inscrutable, a dream
Perhaps, if that would deem
It possible to evade
You. And in shade
Remain.

A voice without a face, if only
I could be to you. So closely
Wouldn’t scrutinise each word
And I’ll be a free bird
Again.