Poetic Emotions

When you have no hope,Have no reason to live a life,When you’ve lost all the smiles,And you don’t wish to survive,Just take my name and see,Your tears will vaporize,Just feel my hand in yours,You will find a way to life,By…

I stand alone,I am sinking deep,And what’s sadder,I have none to weep, I cry alone,I am buried in trench,My eyes outpour,I am all so drenched. Dirty, stinking souls around me,Plaguing my life to the core,Friends who tell me to battle…

In 2015, while reading in detail about the Kashmir genocide and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, my eyes were flooding with tears. A genocide was white washed, and the oppressors were let go under garb of secularism. My heart cried out…

Concealed beneath the veneer of fabrics,Some hidden for purely cosmetic delight,Some engulfed for the shame they carry,Like tattoos unwanted, that make us wary,Coated with blushes and concealers,Reminders of memories that turned us squealer,Evidence of a past, that haunts till day,Wounds…

Standing in a corner, she had a passing thought,Is this all what I have been made for?As I stand every night, to be picked by a stranger,Every night, my body, my character is torn. Every night I go, deeper into…

“Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.” I was Jack of that nursery rhyme,I trusted Jill and that was my crime,I was sure when walking…

I feel so trapped, can’t breathe in this rain,I see the droplets, trickle down the panes,I want to taste those little drops of love,As they pour from the dark skies above. I watch in gloom, as they die on the…

Just staring up at the ceiling,You get in self the feeling,Crawling, crumbling and kneeling,Life feels so hollow.No reason for you to live on,Everyone shouting ‘just give up’,You have to counter and live up,Their voices will fall low.It is your life,…