I feel pain inside me like a flower dying
Plucked due to wind and emotions flying,
I need shelter before I loose all my leaves
Please someone save my beloved seeds

Every time you felt special
Every time you gloomed apart
Every time you had no time
To see what was what.

Every time you saw something
Every time you had a dream
Every time you feared one thing
The other time was out of stream

Every time you loved someone
Every time they cared for you
Every time you had a fight
Things did turned out blue.

Every time you close your eyes
Every time you breath some fire
In those time you can experience
Every ounce of incomplete desire.

We go out looking for love
But can't find peace with self
We have list of what we want
But we don't offer others our help

We want everything now
All to ourselves in haze
Hallucinating about our own feelings
Can't solve simple life maze

Once I held on to my thoughts
Insanely dark, deep and profane
took a dip in shallow water
To realise the depth of pain

I heard her call for help
Couldn't stope the impetus
Saved her life to realise
It was my own self-consciousness


- shashank

Tears of joy
Are visible over skin,
But the sadness
Is what glows within.

Have you seen
The morning sunrise,
In the hefty pace,
Of modern paradise.

If we look closely
We see pain all together,
No one is happy
Just better than one another.

It’s the tears
We all have in common,
But do we care
For every drop through cannon.

Now I know
Why only sadness glows,
It’s because dreams are burnt
Over death bed of souls.

Tears o tears
We were best friends,
You promised to stay
But you left as was the trend

You may walk along me
Run if you wish
Said the wind to me
As if it was her last wish.

Shutter and pain
All I could see
The wind was cold
Broken it flee

She told me something
I couldn't remember
But do I care ?
Or even bother to hear.

I felt coldness
Numbness to be precise
But I had my bliss
And ignorance in disguise.

I did it to a wind
What we do to each other
Look in to the eye
And lie for ever.

After we talked
She felt a little warm
Lighter she felt
Went all along

Why I ignored
How was she feeling
May be it defines
My own understanding

As a human if I see
It's instinctive to be selfish
In an ocean of sadness
Talking is like oxygen to a fish

Let's rest for a moment
Think about what just happened
Slight before that movement
Before all that went wrong.

Before I go to bed
Let's give clock some rest
To reflect what passed
When I ignored what happened last

Let's just think nothing
Heretofore it starts again
I should not destroy what's coming
Ere long it began.

I know it's difficult
Because clock just clicked
We lost the race
And that moment just slipped.

it is the portion of night
when you have this tendency to write
so many feelings to fight
and many memories of delight.

words flown
and seeds of thoughts were sown
Many memories to mourn
still some happiness are clowned.

it is the portion of night
where our stars shine
moon fills up with light
and dreams are mine.

so at this point in night
sleep sits beside me with pride
talks about life beyond my sight
after all of this I silently cried.

shashank mishra
(shasankm@iitk.ac.in)