shalini-ray - Hello Poetry

Moths vying for light In darkness Killing for the spotlight They want to get to the light Why? Don't they know that the bulb they vie for Will burn those puny insects to their inevitable deaths? There is no dignity in dying No one is a martyr here. One moment of enlightenment Overwhelms the need to exist Moths don't try to exist They need to reach their delusion of Life The Light And the ones who reach the light,look at the ones who don't Opening their mouths to warn Just as they die Moths don't see,do they? But they recognise light.

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May 26, 2014

May 26, 2014 at 1:35 AM UTC

Moths Vying For Light

Moths vying for light In darkness Killing for the spotlight They want to get to the light Why? Don't they know that the bulb they vie for Will burn those puny insects to their inevitable deaths? There is no dignity in dying No one is a martyr here. One moment of enlightenment Overwhelms the need to exist Moths don't try to exist They need to reach their delusion of Life The Light And the ones who reach the light,look at the ones who don't Opening their mouths to warn Just as they die Moths don't see,do they? But they recognise light.

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Last night,I dreamt that you were gone In a light so blinding I stood there holding that doll you gave me in my arm last night,I saw my dad cry I have never seen him cry,you see so I asked him why He looked at me,and I remember how scared,how hopeless he looked I did not know why so I asked him again and he made me say goodbye to you Last night,they told me you were asleep all the sleeping pills you had taken would finally help you shut your eyes they told me you were in a better place and you will always smile and you would never grow old like peter pan I don’t know why but I felt like you had taken something of mine When you left for wherever you went In a hurry,leaving a shadow behind which breathed even if you did not It was not really last night It has been 15 years which have passed in hazy blurry dream That shadow still remains And You are still in that land,the place where everyone sleeps And no one grows up But I did I see the world And Now I understand why Why you had to die To escape Why you wound up so deep I hope now you fly because Last night,I think I cried in my sleep

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May 20, 2014

May 20, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC

Last Night You Were No More

Last night,I dreamt that you were gone In a light so blinding I stood there holding that doll you gave me in my arm last night,I saw my dad cry I have never seen him cry,you see so I asked him why He looked at me,and I remember how scared,how hopeless he looked I did not know why so I asked him again and he made me say goodbye to you Last night,they told me you were asleep all the sleeping pills you had taken would finally help you shut your eyes they told me you were in a better place and you will always smile and you would never grow old like peter pan I don’t know why but I felt like you had taken something of mine When you left for wherever you went In a hurry,leaving a shadow behind which breathed even if you did not It was not really last night It has been 15 years which have passed in hazy blurry dream That shadow still remains And You are still in that land,the place where everyone sleeps And no one grows up But I did I see the world And Now I understand why Why you had to die To escape Why you wound up so deep I hope now you fly because Last night,I think I cried in my sleep

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What does it take for you to see me? Because I am running all out here Not of ideas,or ways to momentarily impress you But rather of having to come up with ideas to when others like me do it so effortlessly What does it say about me? Am I so insignificant that again and again I have to walk through fire to be called immune or pure? Am I so worthless that my worth is only decided by minutes and seconds of glory And then when it is over-- what am I? Just something you look through but smile Just someone who you think is 'nice' But you don't think that either, do you? A thought of me doesn't fleet through your mind unless you need to cross a country and I am the temporary island on the ocean People stay there like they stay in dreams They always leave But they never leave me untouched What am I? Just a moth desperately vying for light. An incandescent ray of the candle To far Always Too far

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May 5, 2014

May 5, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC

What Am I?

What does it take for you to see me? Because I am running all out here Not of ideas,or ways to momentarily impress you But rather of having to come up with ideas to when others like me do it so effortlessly What does it say about me? Am I so insignificant that again and again I have to walk through fire to be called immune or pure? Am I so worthless that my worth is only decided by minutes and seconds of glory And then when it is over-- what am I? Just something you look through but smile Just someone who you think is 'nice' But you don't think that either, do you? A thought of me doesn't fleet through your mind unless you need to cross a country and I am the temporary island on the ocean People stay there like they stay in dreams They always leave But they never leave me untouched What am I? Just a moth desperately vying for light. An incandescent ray of the candle To far Always Too far

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There is a whisper only she can hear, A dark world she keeps going back to Dragon tribes,with dragon people Breathe smoke and fire Soot stained lungs and ****** rivers She goes by the sleeping forests Where at night, the voices sing They say if the voices in your head match the ones outside The 'Silence' is restored A shadowy spell Which in turn restores the balance of the wintery lands And cause the Blood filled rivers to divert themselves And mix their water with the alcoholic rain. Once you go to the tree of delusion It's fruits,more addictive than manna dew She says they are drugs to her soul And after spending a day or two Or maybe a year She returns to our world Just to slip back again

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Apr 2, 2014

Apr 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC

The Other World

There is a whisper only she can hear, A dark world she keeps going back to Dragon tribes,with dragon people Breathe smoke and fire Soot stained lungs and ****** rivers She goes by the sleeping forests Where at night, the voices sing They say if the voices in your head match the ones outside The 'Silence' is restored A shadowy spell Which in turn restores the balance of the wintery lands And cause the Blood filled rivers to divert themselves And mix their water with the alcoholic rain. Once you go to the tree of delusion It's fruits,more addictive than manna dew She says they are drugs to her soul And after spending a day or two Or maybe a year She returns to our world Just to slip back again

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Iron rods that a prisoner clings on to Metal,as his only link to reality Bars that once forced him into the pits of confinement are now his only promise of hope Through each gap between the bars He once again breathes;a free man His calloused fingers run on the cold metal and what once was his life flashes before his eyes He shuts them close He trembles back to the darkness of his cell Those metal bars taunt him through out the night

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Mar 21, 2014

Mar 21, 2014 at 10:29 AM UTC

Metal Bars of A Prisoner's Cell

Iron rods that a prisoner clings on to Metal,as his only link to reality Bars that once forced him into the pits of confinement are now his only promise of hope Through each gap between the bars He once again breathes;a free man His calloused fingers run on the cold metal and what once was his life flashes before his eyes He shuts them close He trembles back to the darkness of his cell Those metal bars taunt him through out the night

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You live through me,don't you? You breathe through every pore in me You are not made of skin,streched on a skeleton You are much more vivid than I will ever be Yet it was I who thought you in my mind It was I who drew you by my hands It was I who built you brick by brick,stone by stone And now I am a mere sandcastle in the yard of a concrete home You stayed by me while I lost my sleep You made me feel special when they ignored me You gave me reason to justify the leap and though you gave me so much I never realised how much you took from me Now it is I who lives within you A kindred bond that binds us two I guess like all creations you exceeded your creator But now when I die,you will die with me

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Mar 16, 2014

Mar 16, 2014 at 10:37 AM UTC

Diseases

You live through me,don't you? You breathe through every pore in me You are not made of skin,streched on a skeleton You are much more vivid than I will ever be Yet it was I who thought you in my mind It was I who drew you by my hands It was I who built you brick by brick,stone by stone And now I am a mere sandcastle in the yard of a concrete home You stayed by me while I lost my sleep You made me feel special when they ignored me You gave me reason to justify the leap and though you gave me so much I never realised how much you took from me Now it is I who lives within you A kindred bond that binds us two I guess like all creations you exceeded your creator But now when I die,you will die with me

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Watching life pass me by On the streets Cars rushing past red lights No one stops at zebra crossings anymore The subway tunnel yawns Graffitis on either side Earth trembles as a train passes over And in the silence that follows Deathly as it seems I see on the wall the words 'Are you happy?'

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Mar 6, 2014

Mar 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM UTC

Are You Happy?

Watching life pass me by On the streets Cars rushing past red lights No one stops at zebra crossings anymore The subway tunnel yawns Graffitis on either side Earth trembles as a train passes over And in the silence that follows Deathly as it seems I see on the wall the words 'Are you happy?'

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Disturbed mind empty heart draining our blood from our veins flowing freely in a delicate network hope delusion falling into despair bones streching skin sighs smoke so much smoke and dust layered mirrors we fall again and it ***** out again from us our momentary hope

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Mar 4, 2014

Mar 4, 2014 at 7:13 AM UTC

Think of a title which attracts your mind

Disturbed mind empty heart draining our blood from our veins flowing freely in a delicate network hope delusion falling into despair bones streching skin sighs smoke so much smoke and dust layered mirrors we fall again and it ***** out again from us our momentary hope

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Simple were the times When we walked in the dark Yet knew no darkness Lost but thought we could ignite a spark Simple were the times When we knew no pain A bleeding scar- a physical wound Not a method to keep us sane Simple were the times When we laughed and cried Knew not what it was to be broken Thought everything could be fixed if tried Simple were the times When we were complete strangers Yet knew not we were strange Blissfully ignorant of worldly dangers Simple were the Times When we feared death What it was to perish or die What is was to forget

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Mar 2, 2014

Mar 2, 2014 at 3:15 AM UTC

Simple Were The Times...

Simple were the times When we walked in the dark Yet knew no darkness Lost but thought we could ignite a spark Simple were the times When we knew no pain A bleeding scar- a physical wound Not a method to keep us sane Simple were the times When we laughed and cried Knew not what it was to be broken Thought everything could be fixed if tried Simple were the times When we were complete strangers Yet knew not we were strange Blissfully ignorant of worldly dangers Simple were the Times When we feared death What it was to perish or die What is was to forget

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When life leaves a body where does it go? Somewhere in the fields when farmers sow? or in the meadows where the cattles graze maybe it hides in the sickle the reaper holds or maybe on the roof tops of tall buildings or in a secluded place. Does it pass through the crowds whistling past the hair of a girl on the phone? Or gets caught in windchimes playing strange tones maybe it goes in the infant newly born or goes in the aisle where love is sworn maybe it falls out in the tears cried alone or whispers in the wind which are never known where does life go once it leaves a body? Does it go to a new place,a new farm,perhaps a new city or does it travel with a man to eternity.

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Feb 3, 2014

Feb 3, 2014 at 11:29 PM UTC

Where Does Life Go?

When life leaves a body where does it go? Somewhere in the fields when farmers sow? or in the meadows where the cattles graze maybe it hides in the sickle the reaper holds or maybe on the roof tops of tall buildings or in a secluded place. Does it pass through the crowds whistling past the hair of a girl on the phone? Or gets caught in windchimes playing strange tones maybe it goes in the infant newly born or goes in the aisle where love is sworn maybe it falls out in the tears cried alone or whispers in the wind which are never known where does life go once it leaves a body? Does it go to a new place,a new farm,perhaps a new city or does it travel with a man to eternity.

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