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817 · Jul 2020
They named her Patience
They named her Patience
Hoping she would put up
With the unflinching burden of hatred
Hoped she would stand through it all
To emerge out into the boundless open
A space with no history
No prejudices

So she took up her pen
Held it so high that it caught the sunlight
She raised her voice
So that it broke through the walls of prejudice
And with threads of intellect wove her thoughts into order
She was Patience
But she did not intend to wait
For a saviour
A tribute to poet Patience Agbabi
553 · Jun 2020
Phonecall
The silence awaits her phonecall
I sweat my fears away
Patience wears thin with every passing minute
Wonder how long I'll have to stay.

Gladly, yes, gladly through the screen
I saw your face for a hundred times
But now for the ring, love's unbroken string
Gathers itself around my one vice

And the vice is you
And yet you fade
Into the setting sun
And the music of the dead.
393 · Mar 2021
Stilled
On the starboard side
I count the days
Until we reach the city
To fight the war

Fervently hoping
That my father's uniform
Does not mingle with the mud
Before I do

A seagull
It's eyes darker than the ink
On death certificates
Keeps me company
293 · Jul 2020
Unalive
Light up my life
Like a sky full of dying stars

Because my life
Has been useless so far

The starlight enters our eyes
Even though the star is dead

I see my reflection smile
Even though I've long been led
Away from life.
243 · Jul 2020
Tutankhamun
Angry winds stirred up ghosts of sand
As his thickly gilt coffin was paraded
In front of his well wishing plunderer

Dark bellied clouds loom over the spectacle
They hide secrets from people, ancient and ominous
Whispers like sharp bristles sting those dead ears

The untimely clap of thunder is heard
Rushing from the distance
Like a Banshee's scream
195 · Sep 2020
Mortified by nonsense
Mortified
I stare at the half dead birds
With wings of smoking coals
Fly into igloos made of plastic
And leave a trail of blood
On the blue paper sky

Mortified
I close my eyes
And drift into dreamland
To escape this astronomically nonsensical nightmare
Of a half dead reality.
192 · Nov 2020
On a lavender field I lay
amidst the lavender fields

There I was
Lying wide awake
My vision glazed
My mouth open

A little cloud shaped like a child floats by

A warm touch
Around my mouth
My mouth closed
I don't know, how to breath, now
188 · Aug 2020
Ptolemy
Once upon a time

I decided I'd design the universe

Make the stars dance according to my whims

Fry the sun in butter until

It was as golden as I wanted it to be


                            My universe lasted for a while.
179 · Oct 2020
Ending
And I used to think it was me who didn't care............
159 · Sep 2020
It's time
My left eye is burning
I'm afraid
That I've sneaked glances at the sun
For too long
154 · Aug 2020
Rotten
Two ****** eyes look at me

From the tiny crack between the shutters

Little by little a vacant face
Comes into view

And I realise

That the good days have come to an end
143 · Oct 2020
You, a human?
A green snakeskin
Gathers dust on your shelf

When was it that you became human?

I... don't remember anymore.
132 · Oct 2020
Waking into sleep
I wake up
To a blast of warm air

The smell of a dream running far away
Smothers my senses

It moistens my dry eyes and chapped lips
Strangles my fantasy of slumber

My blurred field of vision
Drips into the monotony of everyday life
131 · Aug 2020
Bad poem
Unsavoury rhymes swing by course

I have nothing left to write

Gnashing my teeth I tell myself

I can think of nothing, but that's alright
Leave me not now, my love
I haven't had enough of your love tonight

The fragrance of your warm limbs
Have intoxicated me
Slowly but surely
I'm losing my judgement

So wait
For a little while
Let me run my fingers through your soft locks
Let them loose
Let them free
And throw them
All over my unappeased heart

Stay with me
A little longer tonight
113 · Jul 2020
An oddity
Sometimes I wonder...
Do I really long for love?
Or is it heartbreak that I'm in love it?
All the doors are closed
And the windows bright
It's a toy city
No one laughs here, no one cries

In the afternoon on the road you will see
A running man, a swaggering child
And then night falls before the sun goes down
In this toy city of eternal night
109 · Jul 2020
Blur into a golden time
The memories around me
Blur into a golden time
Everything swirls around
Into a marriage of day and night.


Things that I wish to forget
But can't help remembering
Merge with the remaining bits
Of the rapidly fading good ol times.
101 · Jul 2020
Rejected
I have failed myself with such absoluteness
That not even death
Would be of any use
101 · Aug 2020
The tears of the sky
The birds flew away from their nests

Their silent songs enveloping their abrupt farewell

Like an abandoned child, those lifeless straws

Soak the tears of the empathising sunset
101 · Jul 2020
No escape
I shall wait for tomorrow

While I forget myself in today

Drunk as I am with anxiety

I have nowhere else to run to.
Her house isn't somewhere I look forward to visiting
The streets are broken in places with garbage all around
It stinks, right to the almighty heavens, I think
And if it wasn't for her
I would have avoided
Going there
Altogether
But
That is where she lived
And that is why
It became my favourite place
In the entire world

In the entire world
99 · Jun 2020
The moon tonight
Silver glistens on a bare rooftop
Night stoops onto the cement sidewalks
We plan our lives, our joys, our sorrows
And stare at the unusually bright moon tonight.

It seems like a golden orb
Peeking from beneath a muddy sea
It's glow diffusing into the clouds and the air
We stand and stare
And then close our eyes
As we grasp for the invisible warmth
That surrounds us
Tonight.
Cry me a rainbow river

Set aflame by red neon lights

As I walk past the dark houses of lonesome town

I miss the illumination of your smile.
90 · Aug 2020
Shrinking heart (haiku)
My awkward steps
Beat a tattoo of regret
In my shrinking heart
89 · Jul 2020
Yet to finish
Colours fade in
Heart reeks of blood
On this hot July afternoon
I close my eyes to your song

Evening rubs on the windowsill
Louis Armstrong paints a dead memory
I am yet to open my eyes...
For you are yet to finish your song
You can take your time
Laugh out loud
Cry your heart out

You can do it
Here
No-one minds

We're all the same here
Pink plastic flowers
Strung across the barren trees
Like sakura blossoms
They slowly sway
86 · Aug 2020
Blood soaked feet
The wretched song of silence
Snakes into my ears

The heap that wrecks of violence
No corpse in one piece

Shut your eyes
Close the doors
And hug your ****** limbs
The blood red track of limping feet
Shall lead them to thee
86 · Aug 2020
🌿
In the poison forest

Inside the womb of the emerald snake

I planted the spawn of the Devil

Selfishly hoping to ease my pain

And as you can tell

I'm lamenting
The both of us together
Me and you
You and I
We keep waiting for our friend to come
To bid him a final goodbye

We've been waiting for a while now
This friend is yet to arrive
And I sometimes think I've forgotten
How he sounded and looked like.

Forgotten if he ever asked of us
To wait for him in silence
But why then do we keep waiting
On life's little bylane?
82 · Aug 2020
Killing you
I have killed your memories
But...how do I get rid of these remains?
81 · Jul 2020
Sing me a love song
Me?
But I can only sigh.
And wait for a dead melody.
Sleep has abandoned me
Under the white ceiling
Lit up by fluorescent green starships
I sit. Wide awake in the middle of the darkness
I had wondered for a long time today
Wondered if I should break this rule
That I have set down for myself
And then I realised
This wasn't a rule
It was me
Myself
It was
What I am
78 · Aug 2020
(🍂🍂🍂)
Falling into a rabbit hole
Plunging headlong into a colourful wonderful
The ecstasy of forgetting reality
77 · Aug 2020
I was here too
I keep my eyes open
Stare at the summer sky without sunglasses

Look at the snowfall
Until the snowflakes melt into tears

I was scared
That the moment I close my eyes

I would be forgotten
Even though, it probably wouldn't have made a difference
76 · Jun 2020
The last flake of dawn
Like the last flake of dawn
We glimmer, and then subside
Into the steady afternoon
Alight with hazy feelings.

We wrap ourselves within our world
And imagine it to be
The best of all possible worlds
For some unknown, shallow reason.

Then we forget the chair, the table
The grey room we are sitting in
And immerse ourselves
Into the harsh light of today.
76 · Jul 2020
Beginner's Haiku#1
On a yellow, sunny morning
A grey cloud strays into the blue
The early monsoon
My first attempt at composing a haiku
76 · Jul 2020
Blind
White carnations lie
For while you still see the world
My senses are dead.
75 · Jul 2020
A tattooed rose
On her waist
Are swirls of black and brown
Smooth, like a worn polaroid
Beginning and ending in her heart of thorns
75 · Jul 2020
Chunks of fire
I was fed chunks of fire
When I was young

And thus now I spit flames
Whenever I speak
73 · Jul 2020
An unfinished poem
An old muse
Now gone away forever
Stray thoughts
Which now gather dust

The silhouette of an unfinished dream
With all the makings
Of a story
A masterpiece

I look at half done paintings
I read poems abandoned midway
And wonder about the story
We can never be the end of
73 · Aug 2020
Waver
Brusque strokes on calm white linen

A wave of serenity broken little by little

Into the night of the dawn-like smiles
73 · Aug 2020
Room to grow
The sunshine halo
That surrounds our entwined fingers
Sings the song of beginning
The melody of the young dawn

We've only just begun loving
We've only just started to try
And I hope that it'll be very long
Before we bade goodbye
72 · Aug 2020
Claustrophobic
No room to breathe

In a room-fool of people
72 · Aug 2020
Blush
Pink lip tint smeared on the cheeks
Sweet closeness beneath those cosmetic colours surface
Bringing forth the melody of spring
71 · Jun 2020
Back 'ome
There ma
There goes my mind
I left it waiting
For my future child

Now I'll take a sip
Of present's wine
And take a nap
Until the end of my time

Yes ma
I know ma
I didn't make it
I didn't make it
A lost lover's death
Unknown but profoundly felt
A hidden tear falls
70 · Jul 2020
Sorry
I'm sorry
But I couldn't get myself
To love your empty words
69 · Aug 2020
Voices
Set the night alight
Feet caught in the brambles
Let your voice reach the moon
Roaring rivers of sadness
Be the friend you've looked for
A long time
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