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Oct 2018 · 377
Seatbelt
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
Some magnificent
rollercoaster, such is life:
No safety harness.
Haiku
Still here. Still waiting.
Oct 2018 · 419
10^2020
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
"but hey,why don't you
ever look back?" "Because then
I would never Leave."
haiku
I want you to remember that even though you never look back, I'm always watching you go.
Oct 2018 · 338
if.
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
if.
if I could spend the entire day talking to you , I would.
if I could stay back every single day just to watch you smile for 60 more minutes , I would.
if I could go out with you every day ,maybe nothing big, like a walk under the starry sky or to the bookshop, I would
if I could hold your hand for the rest of my life and laugh about nothing in particular
I would eat every single weird vegetable just to see your crack up and stay longer.
I would kick all the sand in all the deserts ever over your brand new shoes just to get your attention.
I would write you more poetry than you could ever read
I would text you all day, every day, you know I would.
I would probably scream your name over hills and listen to it echo around us.
I would tell the world what you really meant to me.
I would mess up your hair all the time to the point it would look like you REALLY didnt comb.
I would hold you and hug you till my arms would ache and then it would be your turn.
I would go back  and relive everything with you, the right way.


I really would if I could.
but you know I cant.
so maybe I'll just sit here
and dream instead.
im sorry for all the things we cant do together but will never ever regret anything we have.
Oct 2018 · 215
reason.
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
love doesn't listen to reason.
neither does the Devil.
Oct 2018 · 201
Untitled
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
Hearts of stone.
All blood and bone.
Oct 2018 · 1.0k
paper planes
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them.
To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes.
To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”.
To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by.
To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.”
To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope.
To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit.
To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland.
Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time.
To the men who take every sortie with a last salute.
To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky.
The Eighth of October is for them.
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them.
To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes.
To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”.
To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by.
To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.”
To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope.
To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit.
To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland.
Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time.
To the men who take every sortie with a last salute.
To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky.
The Eighth of October is for them.
The Indian air force day is celebrated on the eighth of October.
Just a little something I read out in assembly .
Sep 2018 · 16.5k
pain.
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
just because the star-
fish can grow its arms back does
not mean it didn't hurt.
______________

even though scars heal
and wounds fade it doesn't mean I
will forget the pain.
haiku.
Sep 2018 · 497
#broken
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
This is the sound of
A thousand breaking hearts and
Each of them is mine.
Shatter.
haiku
Sep 2018 · 243
Broken but beating
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
Oh mon amour,
you
Can't break
A broken
Heart.
Sep 2018 · 497
chaos theory
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
butterfly flits by
as winds blow; miles away, a
hurricane is born.
haiku
Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. 'Chaos' is an interdisciplinary theory stating that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns. The butterfly effect describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state, e.g. a butterfly flapping its wings in China can cause a hurricane in Texas.
Sep 2018 · 1.5k
galactus
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
And when you feel I’m slipping lightyears away
i will remind you how my world still
revolves around you.
i will brush out your dark holes with
constellation kisses as we lay counting stars.

And when you feel lonely
i will traverse galaxies to be by your side
as i share the secrets of my universe with yours.
i will hold you closer than my gravity will permit me
and I will crush all the space debris that dare look your way fragment by fragment
as I heal your craters with moondust.

in the darkness of your eclipses,
I will wait in the shadows to watch
You rise again.
We will waltz under meteor showers
and wish upon shooting stars as we dwarf Jupiter
With our amorous infinitudes.

when you feel vacuum within you
I will carve you a supernova heart
giftwrapped in spaceflowers
To fill the void.

I'll love you to Eris and back
As you reinvent a Big Bang for me
Where I started with nothing and suddenly have everything.
a universe too small for my love
Sep 2018 · 372
ghost lover
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
holding me close whilst I cry
brushing off tears before they fall
yet pushed against your ribcage
I hear no beats at all.
does it beat for me
Sep 2018 · 453
painkiller
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
darling you are the
most effective painkiller
I have ever known
haiku.
I miss you too.
Sep 2018 · 342
Upon The Rocking - Chair
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
ancient beauty : a
visage untouched by pain and
yet ravaged by time.
haiku.
golden days.
Sep 2018 · 222
i shall rise (on my own)
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
'we rise by lifting
others' : my hands are full yet
feet unsupported.
haiku.
stop waiting around for knights in shining armour. Go forge your own swords and fight it out because no one is coming to save you. And thats the truth.
Sep 2018 · 2.4k
fangirling
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
poster kisses, an
impossible wish; isn't it
hard being fangirls ?
haiku.
how is it though, to live in imaginary universes?
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
but hey, havent you
see enough **** in this world
to stop Believing ?
haiku.
sometimes I wonder if space is really just all vacuum
Sep 2018 · 298
sḥoreline struggles
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
a shame time and tide
dont wait : t 'was by a second
the crab missed the waves.
haiku.
its  not just us humans.
Sep 2018 · 366
no space
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
vacuum within
claustrophobic universe
I just cannot BREATHE.
paradoxical  haiku.
suffocation is kinda ironic looking at the fathomless space around us
Sep 2018 · 332
get over it (senryu #3)
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
buy gumboots because
rain will wash away every-
thing

__

if you let it
forget.
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
mathematical
incompatibility;
a SYNTAX ERROR
star crossed lovers
fate decreed our distance
Sep 2018 · 506
nostalgia (senryu #1)
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
sugared hot porridge
        dusk lullaby, dawn firefly
    sudden nostalgia
childhood memories
Sep 2018 · 437
Suicide helpline
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
1  But i'm just so done
8  With life. I can't wait
0  around to be some hero.
0  I'd rather be a photo
2  On the mantelpiece. Too
7   Scared to even
3   Try and hope to be
8  better. i won't be great
2  someday. Nothing i can do
5  to help me survive
5  hell why am i even alive..
No I am not suicidal. I am just here to say I understand.
Sep 2018 · 901
A history of sexism
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
From -
“you’re a girl, you cant play.”

- To -

- Now -
“you play like a girl”

From orders to insults.
From bonds to bullying.

Did we ever really evolve?
musing over sexism on the basketball court.
Sep 2018 · 291
acute writer's block
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
looking right and left
but there is nothing left to write

is light the absence of darkness or
darkness the absence
of light?
empty head.
Aug 2018 · 903
resilience
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
no mud,
no lotus.
dont let your struggle become your identity
Aug 2018 · 720
fake friends in 5W
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
always lonely
yet
never
alone.
am I the only one?
Aug 2018 · 5.6k
Bolt Britney
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
there lives a little white boy across the street,
i swear the chaps' got wings on his feet.
but he grovels around in charcoal and mud,
cos they say he hasn't got athletics in his blood.
he breaks British records, doesnt seem to stop,
but the Jamaican colours flutter from his rooftop.
Olympics the dream,but more than that,
little master Owens just wants to be Black.

there lives a little black girl just next door,
i can hear her tap dance on the linoleum floor.
she sings the opera from dusk to dawn,
she prances and twirls on the family's front lawn.
"your dancings' awkward, your voice baritone,"
it's not in your blood, leave the dreams alone.
she smears fairness creams day and night,
little miss Britney just wants to be White.
racism and stereotyping lives on
Aug 2018 · 376
living and existing
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
concealed chains bind me
prance through surreality
i marionette
its time we follow our own dreams
Aug 2018 · 3.1k
plan #2
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
shuttle lost in space
transcend physics, black hole, in-
finity together.
my first haiku.
Aug 2018 · 2.3k
art
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
art
As your tapestries collapse and crumble inside

Watch the bloodied paint flake off your heart

Don’t brush away the ink pooling in your eyes

Stand aside as they applaud your art
a million thoughts inside my head
I feel things I'll never show
a thousand things I never said
a thousand things you'll never know.
Jul 2018 · 397
what i know
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
I know how to love and I know how to lose,
I know how its best sometimes to not choose.
I know how to leave and I know how to stay,
I know how some people mean more than they say.
I know how to forget and I know how to forgive,
I know how its good to live and let live.
I know how to hide and I know how to show,
I know when it's best to just let go.
I know how to rise and I know how to fall,
Heaven bless me but I still dont know all.
sometimes knowing just isnt enough.
Jul 2018 · 241
I remember
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
I remember him smelling of strawberries and cream, like an unexpected breeze on a winter day.
I remember her pulling him away.

I remember my gaze searing into his eyes, willing him to come back.

I remember him down on his knees, rose clutched in one hand.
It wilted soon, I remember that too.

I remember crying buckets and rivers, begging him to stay.

I built a bridge to get over it. Too weak to stand my pain.
it collapsed.

I remember the laughs and kisses that day.
I saw them looking at each other in a painfully familiar way.
(I caught a glimpse before I ran away)
Jul 2018 · 323
i need you
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
I need you

like a heart
needs a beat

like a body
needs a heart

like a soul
needs a body


like my soul
needs yours//..
Jul 2018 · 358
Beauty in the Beast
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
The Rose is under the jar,
A fungus lurks within.
The Beast is corroding slowly,
No magic can help him.

Beauty is locked in prison,
The key to Happiness lost.
The castle lies forgotten,
The memories left to rot.

Yes, no magic will save him.
His destiny writ in stone.
The Beauty lies within him,
Imprisoned and Forlorn.
Inspired from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Though it's a simple piece of work, I do believe it's quite implicit in a profound way. I hope you like it.
Jul 2018 · 379
Of Love and Drugs
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
Love
is a drug.
because
it can
**** you.
You can risk
everything for
Love.
Everything.

It will reduce you
to nothing.
It will make you forget
all your troubles.

No matter how
hard you try,
or how far
you run.
You will come hurtling back.

And you can
never
ever
have enough of it.

But
medicines are
Drugs too.
Love can cure you.
It makes you
whole.
Love will fix you.

Love is what makes
this life
worth living.

Love is a drug.
it can make you
or break you.
Just like everything else.
Thank you for  reading this poem.
Jul 2018 · 224
okay
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
In the stormiest of nights,
On the darkest of days.
During the harshest of fights,
Going through a difficult phase.


and even when we're not-
I promise we'll be okay.
Jul 2018 · 313
Promise me
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
I'll unshackle my heart for you.
I'll love you more than I say.
But first you'll have to promise me-

promise me you'll Stay.
Jul 2018 · 556
Fearless
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
You win. She's not fearless.
It's true.

She's scared. Plain terrified.
of losing You.
Jul 2018 · 199
Glue, Love and Physics
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
In physics today,
we learnt about
the Limit of
Proportionality.
Beyond that point
something stretched
remains like that.
Stretched.

I think my
heart
has finally reached
those coordinates.
Its scarred
permanently.
Beyond repair.

Sure
I fix it
with glue and love,
I fix it.
And each time it
falls,
It breaks again.

Its naïve. It's young.
It's broken.
Its more pain than love.
Somedays it just
stops working.
It gives up.

But my heart
has learned to
fight.

It's got a shield
of indifference.
A chainmail of hate.
It's iron and stone.

But its caged
that way
Can't live that way.
So I let it be.
I let it go.

Some days, it doesnt
belong to me.
But it comes back
eventually.
Because my heart love me the most.

Love is Temporary, kid.
Forever doesnt exist.
                                 ______
The skies have opened up tonight.
Its raining.
Finally somebody understands.
my heart cries with the clouds
And Ive finally run out of glue.
This is my first poem here. I hope you like it.
Jul 2018 · 482
Artemis Girl
Sehar Bajwa Jul 2018
Stardust in her blood,

A fire burns in her eyes.

Child of the Cosmos,

She's a Ruler of the Skies.

— The End —