Kareena

Kareena Mar 2014

You told me I'd find someone better
And I have
But, better is a relative term

Better in the way that when I am around him
I don't have to pretend to be your idea
Of who I should have been

Better in the way that when he tells me I'm beautiful
I know he means it
And doesn't resent me

But better doesn't mean that it feels better
When he holds my hand
It's just a different feeling
Than when you did

Nothing will ever let me forget the first time you held mine
Going down an escalator at the aquarium
To look at the jellyfish or the turtles
When the loud speaker said "For all the young children, their guardian needs to hold their hand to ensure safety on the escalator"
And you laced your fingers into mine
And a smile spread across your face, that I couldn't miss
A smile unlike how you smile for all of your school pictures
It was genuine

The Other One

Kareena Mar 2014

Silence

There was life
I swear
Once, there was

Now there's just three yards of cold, hard linoleum tile between us

And silence.

An ongoing silence that makes me want to scream so hard

Just to hear something.

The Other One

#lostlove

Kareena Mar 2014

The Woes of Being A Hermit Crab

I used to have a family
You know?
Back when I wasn't taken hostage
On your cold, ceramic tile counter top

And I used to eat real food
Did you notice I'm not a dog?
So feeding me mangled up, crushed bits of Purina
Doesn't make my coat shiny

I can remember a time when I felt alive
Instead of sleeping all day
Pretending to be dead
I used to be free

Then one day I was captured and sold into slavery
And you found me at that air-brushed T-shirt stand
In Ocean City
There you decided your life was incomplete without me

It's interesting how once we return to home
We forget about those summer nights
Wearing pucca shell necklaces
When you purchased me because of my superman shell

What is a superman anyway?
He mustn't be so super
If he can't get me far away
Far, far away from here

This is how I feel when I look at my brother's hermit crab. I can't help feeling so bad for him

#hermitcrab

Kareena Mar 2014

The Sands of Time

How can you tell when it's time?
Hours, minutes, seconds
To start living your life
Months, weeks, days
To become who you want to be
Centuries, decades, years
Shouldn't take
*Forever.

Kareena Mar 2014

Procrastination (10w)

Putting off
Shoving away
Forgetting about
Yet to do
*Procrastination

Kareena Mar 2014

Breathless (10w)

When you look at me
Like that
I can't *breathe

Kareena Mar 2014

Cats and Dolphins

You were always a grand mystery to me
Just like that ten thousand piece puzzle I had always attempted
Scrambling on the floor
Trying to fit a million jigsaws together
That were from different puzzles

There was one in the corner of the room from a puzzle
Of a few cats sitting in a wheelbarrow
And ones from a dolphin in mid air
Trying to flip through a hoop
As mesmerizing as it was to finger through the pieces
It sure was hell trying to shove them together

But that's just it
We can never shove the pieces of life together
Especially someone else's
It never works out
So perhaps if you let that person be
They'll figure out their own jigsaw
Complete the cats in the wheelbarrow picture
And finally see that dolphin jump through the hoop