As time slips by
And the heart heals the wounds
I tell myself now
That it's okay to think of you
So I close my eyes
And I go back back to that place
Wait, something is wrong here
Why can't I see your face?
On the rooftop, on a cloudless night
You a shadow, me a haze
I remember hugging you tight
But why can't I feel the embrace?
Was it not all your fault?
I thought you parted ways
And yet, as we held hands,
I see I left some space
Every time I looked into your eyes
Or told you that I care
Or pulled you closer and stole a kiss
Or when we lay next to each other, bare
Your memories shall remain my penance
Because I was never really there.
Mar 30, 2020
Mar 30, 2020 at 6:41 PM UTC
Chin tucked in,
Relax your spine
Calm your fluttering heart
Repeat: everything will be fine.
Forget your luggage
Grab on to some faith
Perpetual turbulence ahead
Take a deep breath.
Under no circumstances
Should you close your eyes
Under your seat is no parachute
Feel free to use the floating device.
Inconvenience is regretted
Your heart shall not make it intact.
So hold it out anyway
And brace yourself for impact.
Mar 2, 2020
Mar 2, 2020 at 7:23 PM UTC
Dreams now supine
Rotting into fantasies
Oblivious to the schism
Preferences decided
By an algorithm
The scorching sun
This burning pyre
What more will it take
To set yourself on fire
Killing your instinct
Shaming is taming
****** oozing
You were born to be
A statutory warning
An inherent cast out.
The fuse is in your hands
Don’t you dare fizzle out.
You feel it
You repress it
A dynamite
Convinced it’s a firecracker.
Time to smell the gunpowder
Clickity click.
Trembles the wicker
To dust off the ashes
You must
Burn down the empire.
Proceed with no caution
Set yourself on fire.
Jan 3, 2020
Jan 3, 2020 at 6:56 PM UTC
One day
As I sit there
with Death
by my side
Before my life flashes
Right before my eyes
Though the person
I loved
and the person you are
Are no longer the same
I am certain I will ask Her
To slow down the parts
With you in them.
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019 at 10:03 AM UTC
You tried all you bandages
Your meditations
And your meds
And yet it pierces
through all your distractions
This faithful pain
that wishes
to whisper to your heart
That what it ought to hear
And it won’t stop
Till it reaches.
So, open that wound
And pick on your flesh
Look at your gods
And watch them shudder
This is your moment
Make it loud and clear
Don’t you dare go numb
You need to remember
How this feels
Raw, just like you
Don’t let Time
rob you blind
Before the time to heal
Comes your right to burn
You shall have your day
To let it go
But, for now,
Let it hurt.
Dec 15, 2019
Dec 15, 2019 at 12:11 PM UTC
When the heart breaks
It crumbles
Into nostalgic dust
Scattered
By a timely gust
Onto glistening city streets
And its sodium-vapour lamps
In the haze around the moon
And the salty mist of the seas
In particular bottled fragrances
And certain sound frequencies
In the place where it began
And where it truly started off
Try as you may to move on
Some day,
you will inevitably cough
As your watery eyes adjust
In this little cloud of dust,
Forcing you to concede
All efforts shall remain futile
Till you continue to breathe
Nov 27, 2019
Nov 27, 2019 at 10:19 AM UTC
Burn down the walls
That hold all your clocks
We're getting where we need to
The night is always young
Don't let all your words
Do all the talking
Write each one down
On the back of your tongue
Don't wait in the trial room
Looking for a fit.
Interlocked, interspersed
The grooves of our fingertips
Do away with rhymes
Tire yourself of poetry
A language lies buried
In the cracks of your lips.
Leave in a hurry
Jump in a rush
Others will find your footprints
On those warning signs
Let them look for reason
And search for meaning
There is nothing written
In between these lines
Take a leap over faith
I'll hold you tight as we both fall
The cautionary tale of our love
Shall remain unsung
Burn down the walls
That hold all your clocks
We're getting where we need to
The night is always young
Nov 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019 at 6:51 AM UTC
Once, in my heart.
Now: in my block list.
Always, on my mind.
Nov 2, 2019
Nov 2, 2019 at 1:15 PM UTC
I close my eyes
Because it is easy.
And
I am lazy.
Memories play on cue.
Tears obey gravity.
My watch feels awfully creative
It goes tock tick.
And I do nothing differently
Except, maybe breathe a little slowly.
The beauty in our hate
I open my eyes, they're
Infected by retrospection.
I try too hard to make things look simple.
Because my wisdom
Is a string of pop songs.
So you ask me when we’ll meet.
And I tell you where, instead.
A place called Someday.
You mistake my tattered love
For intellectual ambiguity
And though I’m dying to explain,
I am painfully lazy.
Dec 19, 2017
Dec 19, 2017 at 5:17 PM UTC
All that I think is mine,
All that I think is me,
is a summation of what I've been told,
of what I've been instructed to see.
'Who am I' is not the question.
The crisis is not one of identity.
Don't be misled, my friends.
The real illusion is this 'me'.
There is nothing new inside there.
Just scribbled notes and summaries.
A bunch of borrowed opinions
And some stolen memories.
I know I can talk and share today.
I can scream to make some noise.
But I hope by the day I die,
I'll have somehow, found my voice.
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 3:37 PM UTC