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Chandy May 2020
Every piece
I find of you
Draws me closer to your essence
Cannot cope with your absence
Blue is my color
For every piece, I come across
The more your presence overcomes
Parameters of my heart
I'll shatter them and join up with you
Leave everything behind
While time cannot rewind
Today it shall be streamlined
For every waking hour
Spent in decay
Miss the one who always
Guided me down pathways
May have been the mosquito
That made you dread tomorrow
Yet you cured my vertigo
As my personal quest
Call me obsessed...
...but I must cure the repressed
Chandy Mar 2020
My name
In your will...
...
...who are you anyway?
Chandy Jul 2024
Words that saved you, shot
Poisoned your vitality
From the exact tongues
Chandy Mar 2021
For you
Now...
For who?
Chandy Jul 2024
History written
From the bones of heroes
All a mystery
How we always reset back to zero
Children return to school
While adults play the fool
Faces of ghouls steeped in screams
Today's territory
Tomorrow's trauma
We are your enemy
Because of drama
No glory in gory ends
Stories snuffed, such sorrow
You are our enemy
Because of trauma
Tomorrow's drama
Spoken through melodrama
Mellow on the drama, place a comma
History written in bones
Of heroic clones
Are you a fraud or just flawed?
Chandy Feb 2020
Out of the depths
My brothers emerged
Yet what I saw...
Wasn't them.
Chandy Mar 2020
Croak away from the daylight
Nightime ambiance
Moonlit trance
Clash of dead night sounds
Set my stance in place
What will I do with fame?
Chandy Aug 2020
Lost
Within the cracks
Kicked to the outskirts
Interest, only in seconds
Days, weeks, months
Then all at once
It dies like a passing trend
Youth and goof
It takes no sleuth to determine the facts
Forgotten and presumed
Awake and alive...
Nevermore
Chandy Feb 2021
Information can be bought
Sold
Twisted
Forged
Knowledge is now
A hot commodity
An object, waiting to be bought
Chandy Nov 2020
Truly
We have always been equal
Labels, rewards, titles
These are what drive us apart
Chandy Nov 2021
Enjoying nothing
Enjoying nobody
Taking chemicals
To change brain chemicals
Trying to act normal
In a life we made
How can anyone live on their own
When the odds are stacked against it?
Chandy Mar 2020
Star in the sky
Where has your brightness shone?
To another distance
For tomorrow's storm
Painfully oblivious
Way we live
Expecting you to come
With no delay
Sadly one day
Oh, the center of the universe...
You will fade away
Rest and decay
Resurrect your power
Not my agency
If only I could revive
What will set me free.
Chandy May 4
Mother's care
Filling holes
By giving life
Does a baby enjoy strife?
Fertile nature
Brings devastation
You created life
To satisfy your vacancy
Chandy Jul 2020
What was once yours
Now mine
Not to own
But to heal
Watch as the future crumbles
For our shoulders can only hold so much weight
Until they snap
Chandy Jun 2024
Sun's explosion
Earth's implosion
Countdown timer
Paints a grim reminder
As the cost rises
The tide follows
Burnt out from life
Burnt by the sky
Connection, regression
Isolation's new weapon
Dying young in the past
Living old in the future
One person deciding lives
One hundred needed to suture
Chandy Mar 30
Your structures, all I do is see through them
Selfish systems surrounding
Millions, billions
Alone yet near
Far yet close
Drawn into it as I walk away
Wondering if any of this would matter
If it was just me?
The more aware I became
The more aloof I believed
Now we brag and proclaim
About our lives filled with shame
As our materials become ourselves
When a number measures our value
Does that mean we inherently have no meaning?
Chandy Aug 2021
From birth
I was given immortality
Never able to die, unless defied
By traumatic injury, to my earthly form

It gets lonely, staying so long
I've discovered lands, traveled across seas
But when it goes indefinitely
Achievements go from celebratory  
To mandatory

All things have an end
I only wish
That I could have one.
Chandy Sep 2021
No longer fooled
By marketing
By glamour
By hope
All of these and so much more
Tossed to the dogs
Now, I live in reality
...
...
...
How do I go back?
Chandy May 27
Floods, storms
Water with weight
Burning fire
Heat shining bright
Earthquakes, fissures
Ground shaking with rage
Tornado, typhoon
Hurricane of pain
Natural disaster, natural tragedy
Artificial tragedy comes with humanity
Spread like a wildfire
Strike like thunder
Sink like an iceberg
Sting like a swarm
Chandy Apr 2020
Close the doors
Party ended at 12 AM
We're shutting down
Not just tonight
But for eternal time
Lengths not even I comprehend
Happy birthday
21 year old
Wish we could stay
But it's time to move along
Take our pizza home
So if you forget
A taste of what was once known
You'll remind yourself
With a mirage of myself
Here's a balloon
Maybe you'll soar with it
Or leave it alone
You were my favorite customer
...
Goodbye, regular.
Chandy Feb 2021
Driving south
A carefree pilgrimage
Thousands do it
Such freedom
Such pleasure
No goal in sight
But to leave behind
A world turned to stone
Chandy Feb 2021
Looming over objects
Coming into view
It was once buried deep
And dies once referred to
But today, it was found
Unearthed near a shallow basin
What is it?
A secret.
Chandy Mar 2020
Your struggles aren't invalid
Conflicts aren't pointless
Yet in my eyes
I will surpass you
Clash of ideology
Both of us mean well
In the walk of life
Wanna get out running
No time to saunter
When the gap between us
Binds us down
Chandy Mar 2020
Good
Bad
None of it matters
We're all fighting
To protect the things
We care about.
Chandy Aug 2021
Looking at each other
Human on human
Conflict abounds, inspired by Truman
If an extraterrestrial came onto our territory
I have a sneaking suspicion
It'll be treated with more respect
Than **** sapiens
Chandy Jul 2024
How long will it take
For straying from the mainstream
To cause a downpour?
Rivaling a revelry
Turning from inspiration
A greater nation
Built from breaking tradition
Just to be put back in cages
Part of a group
To compensate
For being alone
Today, punk is popular
Tomorrow, pop is putrid
We are moving along
Just to come back home
Chandy Aug 2021
Over each bunk
The sun flooded in
Onto the floor, quickly
The playing cards, folded
The walls, weathered
Inside and out, painted
A palette of an evening day
In collaboration with a falling sun
How fitting, for the last day
Chandy May 2020
Professionals
Hand out mere suggestions
Backed by years of
Study
Dedication
Long nights
Fright
Flaws
Wait...
They're human too?!
Chandy Feb 2022
External distractions
For internal ailments
Why ponder my condition when I can dance in the moonlight?
Big screen for the dopamine
Small screen for the socialite
A seed yet to sprout--my social life
Some nights, these thoughts bring fright
Am I the only one whose mind has foresight?
How long can this go?
How long can I go?
The flesh is tempered
But my soul is tired
I'm always tired
Please, please, I need rest
Please, please, I'm doing my best
Please, please, I am my own mess
Chandy Jul 2020
7 + 2= 9
12 x 12= 144
2xy - xy= 2

Will I be a light?
To drive away the fright?
How coarse is the sand?
Will I ever learn
How to soar away?

One day
One month
One year
Time flew by.

How do I grow?
Will I be a mold?
Are you okay alone
Mom and dad?

Will you be sad
When I have to go?
Chandy Jun 2024
Living in boxes
Offering a view
Of freedom
Modern mirages
Life was never free
Free to work
Enslaved to life
In our world
There are no enemies
Who do we fight to unlink our chains?
Our war? My war? Their war?
Across the land, over the hills, under the caverns
All a reminder:
All our problems originated with us
We are the real enemy
Now tell me what have I missed?
Was this world always like this?
Chandy Oct 2022
How many layers
Divide instinct?
Fake problems
To avoid false promises
Drama kid, multiplied by a species
So easy
A measly disease
Now I know the reason
Feelings change like the season
May be a human
But with this act, I commit treason
Tired of the act, all I will drop is fact:
The life built for us resides not with us
Freedom is a concept
Divided by forceps
Tell me who you are
Then stop at the fourth step
Chandy Aug 2020
Look out for demise
Someone may bother with yours
Willing to risk it?
Chandy Jan 2020
Thumb
Express gratitude
With one another
Or offend
In a distant land
Index
Accuse someone
Of stealing a fortune
Combine with the thumb
To showcase another’s misfortune
Or greet
With a fleshy gun sign
Middle
Offend quickly
Minimal effort required
Showcase your anger
While hurting another
Who’s gonna stop you?
Ring
Useless alone
Practical with others
Only has value
When combined with jewels
Use to start new life
Or end one
Pinky
Hospitality and courtesy
Aside from those
Small in stature
Still like all the others
Use to show commitment
Accompanied by a promise
Broken like bones
But…
Who came up with this?
Chandy Aug 2024
You are a myth, unreal
I am the surreal, ethereal
Silk hiding beneath steel
All you know is how to conceal
Disappointment from the ideal
So tell me, how do you really feel?
As the wheel of fate
Turns to your last repeal
Chandy Nov 2024
Will we make it?
Do we want to?
Hah!
If only life were so simple
Every action reverberates into ripples
Which I cannot control
Tension and arguments
Shifting eyes, intense moments
We seek stability
It's in our humanity
But as the sand starts to fall
All I want to see is you
Chandy Sep 2020
Enjoy life today
No more ranting, for minutes or months
To conformity
Chandy Sep 2021
Even in death
We want to look alive
Glimmering and stunning
For no one to witness
A mummy is only alive in the likeness
Never in peace, can we rest?
Fashion and fame, left behind in legacy
Easily dismantled in the face of jealousy
Chandy Feb 2023
Creatures of imitation
I call you now
We may be human
But we reject and disallow
Look at the trees, see the air in the leaves
Push and pull as one fulfills needs
So complex
Yet we forget the simple rules
Harmony
Ruined by the lead
Superiority
Born by the urge to creep
Power, not real
All it does
Brings us the zeal for the end
Chandy Feb 2021
Poor in mind
Rich in soul
Widely concluded
To be better than most
Chandy Sep 2024
You want an heir
All I did was stare
How could you share this?
Why? Where?
Here? Elsewhere?
Another life in the system
Of a beautiful plastic world
So unfair and volatile
Brimming with bile
Swimming in false smiles
How can I stare into the eyes of my heir
Showing my twisted reflection
Devoid of emotion
Chandy Dec 2020
The community leaders
Heads of the clans
Shine toward peace
Yet, they cast a shadow
Anointed with power
Chandy Apr 2020
Against the wind
A car pushes forward
I'm in it
Looking over and over
At a world so pure
Full of sunlight
Free from daily strife
But oh
Here I am
Taking a trip down to my decent
A rollercoaster that only goes one way
D
    o
      w
         n
To the depths
Send a postcard
Even my family cares about
Where I'd end up
Once all is spoken
Promises broken
Did what I could
More rigid than wood
Regret my mistakes
Now I'm stuck in this place
Full of blaze and constant craze
Road pulled out from under
Time to plunder
Was this the life I've been preparing for?
Chandy Mar 2020
WELCOME TO HELL
...
Wait...
This is a gas station bathroom
...
You cruel fate dictator!
Chandy Jun 2022
I leaned over to the man
With shaking legs
A face, weathered by tension
I looked into his eyes and asked:
"Sir, how did you end up here?"
He replied with no hesitation
"I cared too much about others
Now with my condition
I am no one without another."
Chandy Mar 2023
Hopeful tones
Splattered on the walls
I see the bells
Yet I hear no sound
At the top, I stand
Hearing no one
At the bottom, I crawl
Hearing everyone
In the middle, I kneel
I can hear the top
I can hear them now
But now all I know
Will be ****** out
By the time I stand
All the love will come out
Until what remains
Becomes lies, never found
Now, here I am
Hear me now
Before I get pushed to the back
Until I bow
Here I am now, here I am now
No matter the height I jump
I'll always be afraid
Of the here and now
Chandy Aug 2021
Old heroes
Come into view
So too, does harsh reality
Age comes experience
Of which, they can no longer use
Chandy Sep 2020
Grey clouds dangle over
Heaven obscured from our sight
Hell, forever still
Chandy Mar 2020
What's in it?
Should be asking
What was used to make it?
Chandy Feb 2020
Someone must be tossed below
For others to be
On top of the world
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