Lost To The Night – Delhi Poetry Slam

Lost To The Night

By Paragi Agarwal

It’s 3 AM and
I’m wide awake
My eyes are tired but
My mind’s in a race

No side of the pillow feels right
Tossing & turning all through the night
Changing the sheets again & again
But sleep’s a bitch, who won’t listen

There is darkness all around me now
Yet my eyes’ a projector somehow
Playing the memories-
On repeat
Like an old tape stuck in defeat

The room is silent
Yet everything feels so loud
Like I’m standing in a busy station
Just lost in the crowd

The clock keeps ticking
The time passes by
But my mind stays open
Still stuck in the night

Pull the blanket over my head
Try to bring my eyes to rest
Morning has come to greet the night
Another battle I lost tonight.


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