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Radhika Krishna Jun 2020
Haven't you seen without your eyes
The trembling little spaces
One, two, hearts in such disguise
Lost but for these traces
I'm wandering the heavens again
Another pace would take me home to you
Bring my hands above my head
What I'd give to see your mind
The cold will start to melt my bones
In this sea of dreaming faces
And now your wide eyes meet their kind
Do you know what this heart chases?
One step forward, one step behind
Are we afraid of what we'll find
The ground tells my feet to pull away
The moment has turned us blind
Have you always known that's all it takes
Now the sky feels dauntingly close
Closer than our hands have ever been
Fear dances on my fingertips tonight
To lift my eyes takes all my might
Radhika Krishna May 2020
I'm on the road to a lonely town
I'm singing my heart out without a sound
If I could see through the haze, there'd be
Maybe a house, a tree, light shining down on me
My lonely town has a lonely frown
Will I look around or turn it upside-down?
Time won't tell, only my mind will tell
And it will wonder when it's glory fell
What a wonder it is in my world
That my hands must stain, if my heart is to feel good
That my sins all trail behind a blackened floor
So heartened by the orange glow
The glow that keeps me alive, but renders this town so poor
A flick, a swish, and there the flame goes
Let the world burn, let it smolder, let it choke all that grows
And as the screams fall down and the smoke curls up
I'll watch from atop a wooden pile
I'll even put on an empty smile
  May 2020 Radhika Krishna
Pluto
I’ve lost my mind a thousand times,
I don’t know why

My spirit you’ll find
In the pines, in the pines,
Where the sun never shines

Where wolves devour my corpse
And bend knee to the source

Where my will is dissolved into ethereal vapor
While the wraiths sing and dance in mysterious caper
  May 2020 Radhika Krishna
Maja
Don’t be afraid of the monster.

The monster was once a normal being,
until something made it a monster.

Don't be afraid of the monster.

Be afraid of the thing that created it.
Radhika Krishna May 2020
What am I supposed to do
When the world looks so bleak
Should I set the sky on fire
For warmth is what I seek
My house is so still
It makes sounds
But it is so still
And I walk, not a stutter in my stare
As if I've got a mallet in my hair
Radhika Krishna May 2020
Tonight there's a star in the sky
That refuses to die
I've got some stories to tell
I hope somebody waits for me
To come along and be their pal
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