Jul 2015
Poets need to stop glorifying heartbreaks and depression. Nothing about depression is appealing and all that blood was never pretty just red and gross. Poets need to stop looking for rhymes in things that have long lost their abilities to speak or, look for a pattern in the way his love comes and goes like the tides on a full moon day. There is none. It is hard to admit it, but sometimes all a poet needs to do is put the pen down, and instead of capturing the moments into words, feel them. Yes, close your eyes and feel the air you exhale and the heart pumping the blood. Sometimes, bleeding on paper ain't enough, sometimes all a poet needs to do is step back and look at his bruised hands and give it the time needed to heal and stop drowning himself in metaphors and similes and get up and stand on his feet and make a difference.
They need to warn the readers and remind themselves that missing someone does not come softly, that there are places where even light cannot reach. They need to stop exaggerating or, underplaying it. Sometimes, they need to stop looking for the reasons for how and why the stars align in a certain way, or why out of all the people who could have broken their hearts, it had to be the one they trusted it with the most.
Sometimes they have to admit, that despite their best attempts there are hearts that won't race on the alphabets and punctuations of what they wrote and there are people for whom their best would never be good enough. And that should not matter.
Sometimes, poets need to realise they are not just a broken memory of the person they were, but that they hold the past, present, and future within themselves. Yes, they are the embodiment of lives. But mostly, One thing that we poets need to understand Is that at the end of the day, when we lay on the bed, we are humans too, and we must find a way to forgive ourselves and all the words we write, should be meant for us. That is the only way we can grow, that is the only way our poems will grow with us when you start being honest with ourselves and not write to fit into some twisted layout the world has set for us.
They need to warn the readers and remind themselves that missing someone does not come softly, that there are places where even light cannot reach. They need to stop exaggerating or, underplaying it. Sometimes, they need to stop looking for the reasons for how and why the stars align in a certain way, or why out of all the people who could have broken their hearts, it had to be the one they trusted it with the most.
Sometimes they have to admit, that despite their best attempts there are hearts that won't race on the alphabets and punctuations of what they wrote and there are people for whom their best would never be good enough. And that should not matter.
Sometimes, poets need to realise they are not just a broken memory of the person they were, but that they hold the past, present, and future within themselves. Yes, they are the embodiment of lives. But mostly, One thing that we poets need to understand Is that at the end of the day, when we lay on the bed, we are humans too, and we must find a way to forgive ourselves and all the words we write, should be meant for us. That is the only way we can grow, that is the only way our poems will grow with us when you start being honest with ourselves and not write to fit into some twisted layout the world has set for us.
