At the moment, only drugs can let me escape from this reality
I wanna go back to my small cocoon world
I went out once
I almost died
Never coming out till then
When everyone will wanna be me
This time, not even the most beautiful ill get me out of this

Being
a few failures away
from death

I wish I was a billionaire
so I could travel everywhere
in my own private aeroplane
go see the world and not be vain
in a much more conducive time
and write about it all in rhyme.
Helping all those needy people
regardless of their own steeple
who'd come across my path to be
and give to them a hand from me
for all their immediate needs
as an example of good deeds.
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There is much about you to remember
Am terrified I might forget
To me appears you already have
Realization that makes me upset

Nothing to stop image from fading
From brain a bit more each day
Picture your face so clearly now
Know time will steal it away

Writing all our memories
The best way to ensure
In some way I'll preserve you forever
The perfect specimens we were

You do not care
Freeze precious snapshots
Because to you they did not matter
If love was a delicate vase
You would purposefully topple it simply to see shatter

Sit down to rest tired feet
Exhausted from leading around in laps
Do not know you're giving me the runaround
You set fire to all the maps

When I was younger, I was told not to feel
"You'll just get hurt"
I listened

But then I see these people
Laughing and living

I disobeyed and felt
I was alive

But I should have listened
Now I'm hurt
Now I'm broken
Now I'm -

☾

Yesterday I cried to the moon
as she wiped my tears away
made my worries disappear
so I could sleep again.

☼

Today I smile at the sun
and it shines back on me,
what a wonderful world
to be alive;
to be me.

The day
You and Me
Became
We

Words can’t explain what my eyes have seen
The pain it holds
The tears it cried
One look in my eyes and you wouldn’t notice the pain nor the truth it hides

रक्त से लथपथ शैल गात व शोणित सिंचित काया,
कुरुक्षेत्र की धरती  पर लेटा  एक  नर   मुरझाया।
तन  पे  चोट लगी थी उसकी  जंघा टूट पड़ी थी त्यूं ,
जैसे मृदु माटी की मटकी हो कोई फूट पड़ी थी ज्यूं।

भाग्य सबल जब मानव का कैसे करतब दिखलाता है ,
किचित जब दुर्भाग्य प्रबल तब क्या नर को हो जाता है।
कौन जानता था जिसकी आज्ञा से शस्त्र उठाते  थे ,
जब  वो चाहे  भीष्म द्रोण तरकस से वाण चलाते थे ।

सकल क्षेत्र ये भारत का जिसकी क़दमों में रहता था ,
भानुमति का मात्र सहारा  सौ भ्राता संग फलता था ।
जरासंध सहचर जिसका औ कर्ण मित्र हितकारी था ,
शकुनि मामा कूटनीति का चतुर चपल खिलाड़ी था।

जो अंधे पिता धृतराष्ट्र का किंचित एक सहारा था,
माता के उर में बसता नयनों का एक सितारा था।
इधर  उधर  हो जाता था जिसके कहने पर सिंहासन ,
जिसकी आज्ञा से लड़ने को आतुर रहता था दु:शासन।

गज जब भी चलता है वन में शक्ति अक्षय लेकर के तन में,
तब जो पौधे पड़ते  पग में धूल धूसरित होते क्षण में।
अहंकार की चर्बी जब आंखों पे फलित हो जाती है,
तब विवेक मर जाता है औ बुद्धि गलित हो जाती है।

क्या धर्म है क्या न्याय है सही गलत का ज्ञान नहीं,
जो चाहे वो करता था क्या नीतियुक्त था भान नहीं।
ताकत के मद में पागल था वो दुर्योधन मतवाला,
ज्ञात नहीं था दुर्योधन को वो पीता विष का प्याला।

अजय अमिताभ सुमन:सर्वाधिकार सुरक्षित

Whether a comma, or colon:
Punctuation slows my rolling
I need no period. When I end
no Capitalization when I begin
Rulelessly I flow my art
  Not a single!
Exclamation mark
Are you not the one
Who'll know?
Where a question mark
No longer goes

Warp the structure
Bend the lines
Put in repeat
Let emotion unwind
Make yourself
Your poetry's the best
Be your own ruler
Pass your own test

Take your own road
Where ever it leads
Lover or hater
It's all poetry!

Nothing is louder
Than silent tears
And 2 a.m. overthinking