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420 · Jul 2018
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.
413 · Dec 2018
lies/lines
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
the very day
we parted
ways

ive been going over the stash
of your letters,
putting the pieces
together

ive been sifting
for clues
hidden beneath
'love you' s

reading
lies
between
the lines
ever since.
such a **** liar.
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
close your eyes
just hold it there
seconds too long
try not to stare
wide open now
call me by your name
we both know how
nothing will be the same

anymore
401 · Jul 2018
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.
400 · Sep 2018
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
397 · Aug 2018
living and existing
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2018
concealed chains bind me
prance through surreality
i marionette
its time we follow our own dreams
395 · Dec 2018
for your eyes only
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
Your eyes are black, tinged with blushes of hazel when the sun falls on your face. I’ve never seen such dark eyes with so much light in them. Your hair is a mess like you got up on the wrong side of the bed but you still manage to pull off adorable every **** time. Your dimple makes special appearances when you laugh on random things I say. Your jawline I know you’re proud of; something I would trace with kisses and warm fingertips, sharp and smooth, so alluring. You’re the perfect kinda tall; our lips collide effortlessly and anyway I would go any limit for you. Our hands intertwine perfectly, you can see we were made for each other. I confess I don’t remember telling your mom in kindergarten you were so cute but I’m glad I did; truer words have never been said. Falling for you was beautiful; you were the stars at the end of my tunnel. You light up my world with fairy lights and gentle kisses and dreams of a future together.  I never knew I could blush before you. You wink like a ******* Prince Charming if there ever was one. ‘I love you’ has never felt inadequate before.
394 · Oct 2018
Seatbelt
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
Some magnificent
rollercoaster, such is life:
No safety harness.
Haiku
Still here. Still waiting.
389 · Sep 2018
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
377 · Jul 2018
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.
372 · Dec 2018
conclusion
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
you were
a learning curve
I tripped over
on my way.
371 · Oct 2018
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.
Sehar Bajwa Jul 4
For a fleeting 6 hours, the outside world melted away. And in that silence i strangely found that i scare myself, this intensity with which i love others. i throw everything i have and more into it. turn myself inside out. in some ways, it is my biggest strength and my worst vulnerability. even when one’s natural instinct is to withdraw and shut down, i'd rather pull them closer, and have them want my company. sit in your pain, alone if you must, but let me be close by. I’m not sure i fully comprehend the concept of space. I don’t much like silence. does that reek of desperation? Probably, but that has no bearing on me either. i fall in love deeply and loudly and unapologetically. does admitting love multiple times dilute the intensity? i am prouder of the people i love than they are, but in their sadness, i too am inconsolable. i will definitely send out an army to find you. what use is being loved if one is alone in their lows. anyways, i never make apologies for how i love and i hope the day never comes where i have to.
the woman has been driven to madness yet again and has picked up her pen. time to come out of retirement.
357 · Sep 2018
Upon The Rocking - Chair
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
ancient beauty : a
visage untouched by pain and
yet ravaged by time.
haiku.
golden days.
348 · Sep 2018
get over it (senryu #3)
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
buy gumboots because
rain will wash away every-
thing

__

if you let it
forget.
343 · Oct 2018
failure.(10w)
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
even
an ant
will get up
only
so many times.....
10w
340 · Oct 2020
selfcaresunday
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2020
sometimes self-care looks like
blocking their contact
not because you've moved on
but because you haven't.
339 · Jul 2018
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//..
334 · Dec 2018
Fade away
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
Even permanent markers aren't permanent.
You'll forget someday
331 · Nov 2018
a thousand interpretations
Sehar Bajwa Nov 2018
"You'll never be like them."
what does this mean to you?
330 · Jan 2019
pyramids are made of sand
Sehar Bajwa Jan 2019
it takes seconds to break
what it takes years to make.
the most important things are fragile
329 · Jul 2018
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.
Sehar Bajwa May 2020
" you're not mature enough to handle it"
so apparently, I'm old enough to handle a back-breaking amount of schoolwork, the stress of living up to your expectations and that of two dozen relatives, the standards of a dysfunctional society, but NOT one, single BOY.

2. " it distracts you from your studying"
well no, not really.
Do you know what really is distracting, though? having to keep your favourite people a secret. all day every day. The anxiety of being discovered gnaws at your very existence. Deleted chats, deleted phone logs, deleted feelings. suppressing your emotions long enough to brainwash myself into thinking I don't care about him anymore. and YOU think I'm acting differently these days?

3. " it's not part of our culture."
since when did love become a foreign commodity? we are but robots with our hearts switched off till the age of 20. And when a trail of incomplete relationships shadows us everywhere, we're left fending for ourselves. Just cos no one taught us to love others right.
work in progress
Sehar Bajwa Jan 2019
you say i dont write
anymore. youre right.
so here's a little something
about how i cant think of anything
except the uncontrollable
beating of my highly unstable
heart that races unabashedly
every single time i see
you turn back to look.
read me like an open book.
i cant help but stare.
when you catch me unaware
I'm blushing like you didnt notice
the lovesick and utterly hopeless
romantic you dont know me to be.
its a fairytale I want, this fantasy.
I'm obsessed fairly possessed
wishing youre maybe impressed
and realize I'm the special someone
you've been looking for since day 1
i can only write love poetry these days
i dont fully comprehend this phase
yet ; utter perplexity. do you realize
I'm drowning within your ocean eyes?
do you too feel this way when you find
me aching to know whats on your mind?
whats taking you so long why cant you believe
that my darling we were always meant to be.
sometimes the biggest way to say something is to say nothing at all.
319 · Apr 2019
back to me
Sehar Bajwa Apr 2019
and i will grow roses on my windowsill hoping you follow the butterflies back to me...//
miss you with the fury of a million scorching suns
317 · Jan 2019
lovesick
Sehar Bajwa Jan 2019
rioting butterflies
when i see you  s  m  i  l  e ,
you forgo an
inch
and i conquer a
mile
"you're not the only hopeless romantic in our relationship uk."
315 · Sep 2018
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.
311 · Sep 2018
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.
308 · Dec 2018
do more than just exist
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
how many times
must one
die
E
X
I
S
T
I
N
G
before they remember
how to
L I V E
?
merry Christmas
307 · Dec 2018
naive
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
memories in my tears
reasons in my fears
naïve beyond my years
where was I going with this?
304 · Feb 2019
mute video calls
Sehar Bajwa Feb 2019
i was going to say i didn't need words to
understand that your heart was singing
that i could see you blush mildly,
your eyes lit up when i smiled.

then i remembered you couldn't hear me.
i know this is hard.
but i love you
happy valentines mon amour
Sehar Bajwa Dec 2018
And I will remember the way your favourite colour
Isn’t blue
Or even red
But a royal Purple
And how your hands are
On fire when
I'm freezing and numb
How you envelop them warmly
In yours and
How we know thats an excuse
To touch…
I wont forget how I read to you
Children's books
How you could make tragedies
Comical
Laughing for hours
On inside jokes we shared
How black Sundays
Weren’t black anymore…
How libraries are your favourite place
But you don’t even read
Anything much
Except my poetry
How my poetry
Is about you mostly
How you mostly
Never loved me
How love
Is a lie
How lies
Broke us
How you don’t seem broken
At all.
hollow.
287 · Jul 6
Untitled
Sehar Bajwa Jul 6
point the way to heaven and
watch my gaze never
leave your hand
tu jannat ki aur ishaara bhi karle, meri nazar toh tere haathon par hi rahegi
Sehar Bajwa Aug 2019
you took my roses
and left your thorns
they sting every time
I hear you've moved on.
267 · May 2019
a poem on heroism
Sehar Bajwa May 2019
If i had to write on this, he said

                                    "I'd write it about you."
heroes are ordinary people.
Sehar Bajwa Jan 2019
The chapters you live in are pages I visit often
The novel of my life is indexed by your name.
Dog eared, bookmarked, frayed at the edges
Memories I keep (re)turning to
Some shabbily hastily taped back
Ripped out in fury, the need to forget
All consuming
And yet
I put them back
Slowly
Deliberately
Smoothing out the wrinkles
Relishing the agony to remember
To cherish the love not too long ago
The roses you gave me
Pressed against these pages
sweetness wafting
pervading my senses
mingling with a whiff of your salty aftertaste
******* the pages like they conceal
fragments of you within their folds
forever on my bedside table and in my dreams
you reappear,
the protagonist of a story that never belonged to you.
263 · Sep 2018
Broken but beating
Sehar Bajwa Sep 2018
Oh mon amour,
you
Can't break
A broken
Heart.
Sehar Bajwa Apr 2019
writing your name with my own hands
in the 'Absent' column on the blackboard
chalk and tears; unpredictable fears
you're still not here.
3 hours of staring at the screen
still not here.
261 · Feb 2019
Valentines Day (n. )
Sehar Bajwa Feb 2019
The reason so many children are born in November

2. Archies/ Hallmark marketing strategy.

3. A day that will never ever meet your expectations.

4. when love is in the air but you're ALWAYS ALWAYS breathing a different air.

5. The ultimate reason to buy yourself chocolates and throw a pity party

6. A day when single people will only see couples walking hand in hand; God's Magnum Opus hell of a psychology experiment.
256 · Oct 2018
Box of lies
Sehar Bajwa Oct 2018
I planted a box of lies in the patch yonder,
From upon my porch I watched it grow.
My flourishing heart barren no longer,
As tendrils snake upward,beginning to show.

Mushrooming out,it eclipsed the Sun,
Shadowing my roses under an ebony halo.
Resolving to salvage both essence and Elysium,
I uprooted the ****, nice and slow.
Lies.
256 · Jul 2018
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)
Sehar Bajwa Feb 2019
No
i won't
let you go.
im clinging on to you
a shipwreck when you're my anchor
meaningless maybe. But you're my oxygen.
youre the sparkle in my eyes and the song
in my head youre my world and like i said
i really love you. i always did always will and i'll
fight . I'll fight you if you leave i'll fight me if i let you go.
what i wouldnt give for you to trust me. love me. want me. need me. what i wouldnt risk if it meant you would stay for good.
youre the one  and there will never be another lover boy
because i know i break promises but this once i have something to live for and i promise i'll love you to eternity
if only you'll have me.
give us another chance.
244 · Jul 2018
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.
243 · Feb 2019
ashes and lies
Sehar Bajwa Feb 2019
four fifty one deg-
ree Fahrenheit; your letters
burning on the stove
haiku
239 · Sep 2018
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.
236 · Jan 2019
candour in 5w
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