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Dec 2021 · 133
Phoenix
Asunder Dec 2021
I wasn't born with wings
But I learnt how to fly
Sometimes spiralling to the ground
Sometimes, an endless sky

I flew with the eagles, they said I was strange
I flew with the doves, they said I was deranged  
And then one day, I see a fire
Tempting me in, a welcoming pyre  

I burst into flames and still I rise
An armoured soul in disguise
Again, I flew in, an inferno denied
And rose from the ashes, with nowhere to hide

"A phoenix!" did they all exclaim
Inside hides a sparrow, fearful, tame
Mar 2016 · 524
Untitled
Asunder Mar 2016
Human souls, infernos, forever yearning to explode
Into a burst of themselves, their bits and pieces
A war against the world and themselves
Your soul tamed mine, and mine yours
And healed the wounds that the world inflicted
For when a soul meets its match, the war matters not
All it needed was love
Jan 2016 · 1.2k
Ephemeral
Asunder Jan 2016
Like the waves in the ocean
That meet the shores and fade away
So did you, with my life
Every single day

Like the snowflakes in winter
That melt when they land
So did your trust
Each time you held my hand

Like the sand in the desert
Once here, then scattered
So were your promises
Leaving my heart shattered

Like a ghost in the darkness
One sees but is unreal
So were your words
And the things you made me feel

Like the glow of a firefly
Now gone, now bright  
So is your love
Goodbye, good night
Goodbye, good night
Aug 2015 · 1.2k
Ms. Popular
Asunder Aug 2015
I will never be you
Yes you, with that crowd around you
Your life's blooper reel .. now my fantasy
When you ****, they exclaim "How fragrant!"
Because you're "hot", definition: conflagrant

Your smiles turn no's into nods
Your eyes a puppy dog's competition
Your Facebook friend count: 3000
As I stalk you, green, astounded

For you were the me that now I'll never be
Because I decided that life's worth being real
Fake is a tongue best unspoken
Fair weather friendships, never unbroken

Like a celebrity spiraling into oblivion
Ms. Popular is now the chameleon
Apr 2015 · 459
Come closer
Asunder Apr 2015
The skies open
The storm abates
Paved streets old
Where a stranger awaits

The world lies cold
A heart of ice
Flames engulf
A lonely paradise

Creeping closer
Into the soul
Filling the void
Making me whole

Alas, separated
Yet always near
To the heart
Distance is mere
Apr 2015 · 1.8k
Slap
Asunder Apr 2015
Don't care if I'm "Glass-half-full" and crap
There are a few people in the world I'd really like to slap
There, I said it. Judge me if you might
But not everyone is a saint, with a halo of light
It ***** though, I'm a Gandhi I'm not a fighter I'm aware
But karma's a ***** so "slapees" beware
Feb 2015 · 752
Sweet talk
Asunder Feb 2015
I was your world, your universe
As long as you liked what you heard
I thought I was your woman
Respected and loved
But I'm just your caged songbird

You heard emotion in my silence
Amidst your outpouring of words
And you asked me to open my heart
That were sealed to your ears
Choking, a little everyday
my thoughts took form
And you hit me with denial
Ignorant to my tears

This songbird will not sing
A truer tune for you
I'll shut my Soul and sing you some Pop
Some radio junk to soothe
Your ego and your pride
My heart shut, lips open wide  

You made the truth your enemy
The darkness is your friend
Until you like what you hear, I know
Our "love" will never end
Jan 2015 · 824
Untitled
Asunder Jan 2015
Some people are like hiccups
First, they're annoying.
You try to push them away
then you get used to having them around
and suddenly they disappear.
Then it feels strange;
like an important part of you
is gone.
Dec 2014 · 837
Fury
Asunder Dec 2014
My blood boils over
Your four leaf clover
Is running out of luck
Don't push it, I'm at the brink
I hear it, the way you think

That the words you say
Will stay between my ears
And not evaporate  
Like the promises they never were
Too late, too late

My reasoning compromised
My senses desensitized
My humanity digitized
Into steps of despair,
hate and fury, lay bare

I hear the words come out
But I don't listen
My tongue has no master
Sly as a *****,
They tumble out faster

Roll over our bonds
Like lava over rivers
Like alcohol through livers
This is our cirrhosis
Our relationship's psychosis

Hardened like stone
Over castles of glass
And as the words stop
I realise they're crass
Alas, an impasse!

I have lost your trust
To an unjust jury
Like the Radium that murdered
the Lady Curie  
All love fissioned  
Because of my fury
Dec 2014 · 812
Crowded
Asunder Dec 2014
Her eyes stare out
Into emptily brimming space
At the lives that run before her
Almost touching, seeming to reach out  
But never crossing paths
Oblivious to her presence

She sits, surrrounded by surreality
By the irony of her twisted fate
To be so close to human touch,
to the relief of shared laughter and tears
And still, trapped in a tomb of solitude

Unmoved by a smile that sneaks
Across her face as a stranger smiles back
For such is transient, never to be realized
As a bigger part, of eternity

Slowly, gently, tendrils of her being
Creep toward another soul
Cautiously approach, then close around
Only to be severed
Ousted by a stronger spirit

And then she saw, a glimmer of light
That closed in on her, swallowed her whole
And she lived in the rays of starlight
For a time

Twice, in four hundreds of days
The lambency would engulf her
With the clemency of company
And then shut her in darkness

And now she stays, alone in a crowd
The silence is deafening
As her heart screams out
For the starlight to touch
Her hand once again
Oct 2014 · 467
Untitled
Asunder Oct 2014
You prised me open
Pages and pages that were stuck together
Like opening a letter, you tore me apart
From the stories that were bound together in me
Like webs of intricate secrecy

I was my diary, my heart my closet
Where the skeletons lay unseen, for years at rest
Then you came along and opened my dark corners
Opened the gates to the secretly guarded treasures in my chest

You did not like the ink in the pages
The stories they told, the people they embraced
In blood and memories, in emotions and opinions
You opened a book you never should have

You threw me away, shelved me
Because there'd be one less plot line
To lose your sleep over
Wondering where my stories would end
And how they'd end with you

My soul's legends and lore
Shall remain closed forevermore
And the next curious reader that comes along
Will rest in knowing this:

Ignorance is bliss
Sep 2014 · 818
Blended
Asunder Sep 2014
Oh, you don't like who I am?
Excuse me for a minute
While I go make myself
A little more socially acceptable
Like another face in the crowd,
A symbol of what is and what isn't allowed
Now I'll be just like you
And you'll be just like me too
Perfection.
Jun 2014 · 1.2k
Untitled
Asunder Jun 2014
Tired of convention, done with the norm
Don't want to be a rebel, but yearning reform
Calm as the eye, in the centre of the storm
You can go tell society, I don't intend to conform
Jun 2014 · 1.3k
Yes
Asunder Jun 2014
Yes
Yes. 
One word forged the chain

An endless strand of love and hope
that tied us together, but far apart
That kept me tethered to you
And pulled me along wherever you went
In all but physical presence

Sometimes, the chains would twist
and we’d meet for a few hours

Only to unwind again for fate 
to leave us alone


I wonder if my freedom
Is without these chains that bind
and make me yearn for a twist of fate
Once again, in our bleak and hopeless dreams

I wonder if my freedom
Is with these chains
that hold me to the ground
yet help me take flight
into unknown realities
that could have been
where I could have been
part of you

A liberation in moderation
Freedom in control
Passion that comes with mystery
And the love of the unknown

Sometimes I think the chains
Are not meant to keep us together
But keep me tied only to you 

And never you to me
That you are free
And I am forever trapped
In the chains I linked
Out of love and concern
The chains that bring
Me to the brink of life
And then back, into eternal darkness
Jun 2014 · 1.2k
Mother
Asunder Jun 2014
Hold my hand, never let it go
Mommy dearest, I know I know
You won't, but I do fear this so
This nightmare long, it brings me woe

To be curled up again, warm and safe
Where nothing can touch me but your embrace
Where this world does not affect me in ways
That make me feel pain and disgrace

Lift me up the way you do
Tell me that I can do it too
Help me believe my heart is true
And someday I'll do the same for you
Jun 2014 · 330
Untitled
Asunder Jun 2014
Doesn't hurt that I hurt you
Or that I made you cry
What pains my heart the most
Is that I didn't even try
Jun 2014 · 2.9k
Inter-not
Asunder Jun 2014
Oh no, I didn'tstagram
Don't want to share my selfies
Don't want you to know what I ate last night
Or what I did on Roofies

I twitter at your followers
And no, I won't "Follow you back"
The only people I'll re-tweet, my dear
Have all the things you lack

Won't go in One Direction
So hate on me, make a fuss
Don't think they'll oust the Beatles
Just because Harry does

Oh, what's a SnapChat?
Don't think I have that
Oh wait a minute, I don't care
Cos that app's neither here nor there

Don't think I'll find an online mister
Or reply to a "How about we.."?
Yes, I'm cyber challenged
So said my little sister

Everyone's a super model
But I mistrust Facebook photos
You probably photo-shopped your flaws
Or whitened your teeth with risottos

#nofilter equals #somanyfilters
Enough with all the fake
Because in this unreal world
This is more than I can take

So, take a step back
Post a candid shot
Don't hang around for them likes
Show them what you've really got

Make it stop.

— The End —