Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Shrishti Ambani Aug 2014
Blood all over,
paint me a little too.
Crimson fingers sully souls true.
The sky weeps fire,
pride undone.
Crushing façades which uproot none.
Twisting, twisting, unwind me so.
Unholy temptations, within they go.
They haunt me.
They taint me.
Tear it out, rip it out, suppress it in.
Who is to decide what is a sin?
Indulgence once done, regretted.
Indulgence once more, wanted.
Slithering snakes of thought,
yield poison and nought
Mortal essence - cleaved in two
Blood all over
it will **** you.
Shrishti Ambani Aug 2014
Dictated by society and obligations, a steered life we lead; we are an adulterated people.
We don’t know what is in our heart, we don’t want to peer inwards, we are fearful.
Strip everything down.
Can you see yourself raw?
Can you face what you see?
Bitter we are past the looking glass.
Peel off the layers and you will find a quivering truth rejected too often, born and bred in denial.
Can you accept what you have let go?
Confrontation was never our forte.
We escape, emotional Houdinis.
Routine takes over.
We work mechanically, if we do the same thing long enough, everything else will lose meaning.
We bury, not burn.
Ashes scatter to never come back but bones stay forever.
Regret lingers on us.
You'll catch faint sniffs of it even now when we’re alone.
Prose, poetry, music and I am foolish enough to be Pandora.
I am not deep. Loss is deep.
People. Things. Our attachment to them.
Cut the ropes and the bridge will fall.
You will fall with it.
Yes.
But you will return scarred, disfigured.
Will you ever be able to make peace with that?
Because I still struggle.
A hollowness which is detected only when knocked upon the seemingly solid exterior.
The strongest are the emptiest.
We are not who we are. We are a mixture of what we want to be, what we should be and what we shouldn’t be.
Our love as materialistic as the dead things that surround us.
Broken. It’s all broken.
The moment we were born, we started dying.
Fragments hold us together, glued together by memories and dreams, fueled by hope.
Falling apart and being pieced together again and again and again till we are claimed by what created us and we shall be purely whole again.
We are an adulterated people.
We are sellotaped souls.
  Aug 2014 Shrishti Ambani
Roshnai
Would you know fear if you swallowed it?
It's like eating off death in bits, only you're alive but you feel it;
It's the bellows of craving that want to screech through your throat
And as you ache, you accept- what you don't want but you've come to need.

An intrusion, a love crime, a you.

Would you know poison as you breathed it?
It's like inspiring a monoxide, only it chokes but you like it.
It's the hunger for catharsis that only comes with pain,
As you embrace that this can destroy you- and you need it to.

Because I do.
It's the only way I feel about you.
Shrishti Ambani Aug 2014
The world is dying.

But you’re dying faster.

So you don’t care.

Everything is crumbling.

You’ll be dust though,

when it ends.

Selfish. So selfish.

You want to fight the bad?

But you’re not ready

to touch the ugly.

Hatred. THIS is hatred.

Burn it all down.

Burn down the ashes too.

So that nothing may ever

arise from this wasteland

of your self-absorbed lies.

Be born. ****. Die.

Revel in your gold-plated ruin

that has become this world.

Because if it glitters,

who cares if it’s hollow inside?

— The End —