Have you Ever Lost Yourself? – Delhi Poetry Slam

Have you Ever Lost Yourself?

By Janvi Verma

Have you ever felt wrong , when you were definitely right?
Have you ever felt the chills in your bones, when you are left alone?
Have you ever felt , trapped, in the rapid churning of mind ?
Have you ever lost hope, for a peaceful mind?
Have you ever thought about giving up?
Have you ever, just given up?
Have you ever felt , as if people just forget, you?
Have you ever felt like drowning, and accepted it like a long lost friend?
Have you ever tried to live a day, so that you don't die?
Have you ever felt , that people just leave, you?
Have you ever let the whispers of the Demon dictate your life?
Have you ever felt, nobody actually cares?
Have you ever, even after all this ,felt, that you are destined for something big, something that is trapped, out of your grasp ?
Have you ever felt, that your mind is against you, bullying you, raging war at you?
Have you ever felt, that you don't control your body, but it controls you?
Have you ever just given up , when you wanted to move ahead?
Strange, how we all lie to others and ourselves, until all that is left are ,thoughts, trapped somewhere in our mind, mind that is not ours , in a body who is at war against itself.
Thoughts, Thoughts, Thoughts, brimming with poison, trying to destroy its host, to destroy the already destroyed.
Numb , sitting in the corner , harmless to others , quiet to others, unbothered to others.
In that corner, I waited, I waited for a hand, just a hand, to pull me out of this maze, just the maze and nothing else.


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