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2.7k · Nov 2014
Fireflies
Arjun Chopra Nov 2014
The night is young
It leaves a pain in my chest
Fireflies flutter around
Brightening their own lives

Without even realizing

My words will forever
Be lost in the wind
But what I feel in my heart
The dreams I've dreamt

They are yours, and yours forever

My hands in my pocket
Would forever be around you
If they could
But you need not worry, my love

*For you're forever my firefly
2.6k · Jun 2014
Awake
Arjun Chopra Jun 2014
A demented whisper
Tugs upon your sleeve
To gaze into the unknown
To gaze into the awe

Unleashing your fear
Fire burning in your bones
You flex your mind
Like you would a muscle

In control of everything
Watching the world in front of you
You realize you were living a lie
You realize you were ignorant

But it all didn't matter
For you were in awe of the universe
Time ceased to matter
You've spent your life being it's slave

Armoured with the love
Of  people infinite
You feel no worry
You've seen the light

You are the light
You are the energy
You are the beginning and the end
You are more than you thought you were

You are awake
2.1k · Sep 2013
Away Away She Flies
Arjun Chopra Sep 2013
Away away she flies
Atop the ship's mast
Singing away her sorrow
Her words lost in the wind

Her tears glisten
In the moonlight
Her heart years
For her motherland

Waves crash upon the shore
Bathing the rocks with foam
A gale of wind, from the west
Billows away a young man's hat

She keeps an eye upon the horizon
A single cloud adorns it
The smell of sea salt,
And fishes fresh

The ship sails away
But she has eyes only for one
She searches but sees naught
She longs for him

Tears adorn her face
Her spirit remains maimed
But her eyes shine brighter
Than any star ever would

Humming deeply
She turns her back against the shore
Her tiny hands, clap softly
To the rhythm of the sea

Away away she flies
Atop the ship's mast
Singing away her spirit
Her words carried by the wind
1.7k · May 2017
Synchronous Bloom
Arjun Chopra May 2017
​Your body

Is my pilgrimage

Of worship



A place

Where my hands reach to

Offer absolutions



I use my silvery tongue

To get you around the bend

And tell you that your flesh



Blesses mine, with a stain

That’s more than just skin deep



So I press my heart against yours

Waiting for the two drums

To beat as one



I press my mouth against yours

And eat the words

That died upon your lips



My mouth traces

Every inch of your skin and bones

Until my hunger is satiated



A sliver of the midnight moon

Bathes us while we

Tangle ourselves deeper into one another



Every heavy breath, a sonnet

Every bite, an ode

Every moan, those three tired words



The air is heavy

With the scent of old perfume

While our two bodies talk



The burden on my hands, absolves

The stars in the sky, dissolves

And the argument our bodies have, resolves

As we bloom synchronously
1.4k · Oct 2014
The Road To Awe
Arjun Chopra Oct 2014
This fire burns
A fever rising in my limbs
This fire grows
I resist the pain

Show me the truth
For I do not believe it
I reject it
I cannot accept it

Show me the road
For the one I walk on
Has no end
It runs in circles

Show me the light

Show me a way to accept the truth

For if this is the truth. Everything I know is wrong

Show me a way to you

*Show me the road to awe
1.1k · Aug 2014
Photograph
Arjun Chopra Aug 2014
This photograph of yours
Is all I have
And it's all I'll ever want
For it is more than I bargained for

Like a deep sea diver
You've broken through the surface
Of my being.
The ripples won't fade away

Our consciousness brushes against each other
It's ethereal

Our gazes meet each other from across the room
It feels like we're half a world away

It could have been a day at the beach
Or a midnight stroll
But for the life of me
I can't remember

And it doesn't bother me
For the memory of you
Is etched in my mind
And that's all I need

This song the band played, when I met your gaze
Is all I have
And all I'll ever want
For it's much more than I bargained for.
943 · Dec 2014
The Manganiyar Classroom
Arjun Chopra Dec 2014
This teacher has it all figured out
There is only right and wrong
No shades of grey
One syllabus to rule them all

The mellow sunrise
With colours dancing between yellow and orange
Seems muffled and grey
From a classroom window

Skipping stones
Bouncing marbles
Drumming on pots
Drumming on buckets

They say,
That the teacher learns more from the students..
Then why don't the students lead the class?

This melody that he's drank
Runs in his veins all day.
And every morning,
A new melody runs.

The melody blinds his eye,
As he enters class
And shall be with him when he leaves,
The day's studies already forgotten.


Memorizing lines,
Inking notebooks,
Drumming on desks
Drumming on desks

The afternoon sun
With dancing sun rays and brightness
Seems inviting and warm
When leaving the class

Running out as soon as the bell rings
Jumping with his friends,
It's a long journey home for him
*And he has a long song for the road.
747 · Aug 2014
Azul
Arjun Chopra Aug 2014
A call from the other side
Awakes her from her trance
Holding on to herself
Taking a step back

Breathing in the sunshine
And letting it fill her insides
A stain upon her soul
A burden that needs to be carried

The scent of salty water
Warmth of sand between her toes
With a weathered eye upon the horizon
She watches

This Goddess
Has eyes only for the sea
Given up her spirit to the water
It pulls her closer and closer

The Tranquillity provided here
Gives her a surreal release
Her thoughts, pregnant
With belief

Bathing herself in moonlight
With the never-ending wind for company
To the rhythmic beat of the foamy waves
*She dances
482 · Sep 2014
Untitled
Arjun Chopra Sep 2014
Race towards the rising sun
And retrace your steps back to me
Cause I need this time
*I need this time
475 · Sep 2016
Regret
Arjun Chopra Sep 2016
Words speak
What the soul hides
And the soul hides
Behind my eyes

It sees all
Drinking it all in
Feelings left unsaid
Thoughts left un-thought

Just a day ago
All I wanted to do was nothing
And all I ever wanted was a slice
Of that beautiful reality

But I'm hungry for cake
I crave for a pie
I crave for Pi
I crave for transcendence

I have a choice to make
And another tomorrow
Maybe two more, the day
After that

But what if I sit here
And wait
Scared out of my wits
Of regret

Regret is scary
He's big, he's soul crushing
He cripples hope
By just existing

This too shall pass
This everlasting night
Shall turn warm,
Bright, with colours

And maybe then
I'll be happy again
And maybe then
I'll be warm again
I found this unfinished poem of mine, and finished it after 3 years
404 · Sep 2016
Honesty
Arjun Chopra Sep 2016
Take a sip

Sit down

And talk to me.



I’ll listen

I’ll listen till the night is dead

And the cows have come home.



Pour another glass

And pour your heart out to me

Cause we have nowhere to go



The stars shine bright

And the darkness is still



It’s just you and me.



One more sip,

You’ll tell me things

That you’ve only told yourself



The night listens

Devours our little talks

Into it’s abyss



We laugh

At our hopelessness

In understanding our

Situations



Cause theres nothing

We can do

Or want to do

Besides talk



You talk

And say the purest thing

You’ve ever thought



I talk

Revealing my deepest,

Darkest fear



We go ahead & pour another glass

For the night isn’t dead yet

And there’s so much more

To say
340 · Aug 2016
Boxes
Arjun Chopra Aug 2016
I've been thinking about it
And even though I'm not really square
I fit into a box
All of me, does.

Packaged neatly
With attractive labels
And artwork
Different and obscure

All boxes are the same
Suffocating
Tiny
But, oh so convenient

And every day
I seek a new, shiny label
An ironic stamp
To decorate my box

Cause my box
Is mine
And that's me
And nobody else

You think they all look the same?
Look again
See, mine's got all these cool stickers
That the other boxes haven't found, yet...

I am what I am
And nobody else can be me
Well, unless they get all the cool stuff
That I have on my box

No need to worry, though
I'm leaving my box today
Not cause I don't wanna fit in like everyone else
It's cause I don't know why I was in one

*In the first place

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