Pencil Shavings – Delhi Poetry Slam

Pencil Shavings

By Shreny Soman

The ink has dried out, 
Pencil shavings are spilling out, 
I'm running out of pages to write.
Was there so much I kept inside?

There's no form, no structure, 
Certainly no rhythm. 
My pain is tone deaf, 
This isn't art, its a prison.

Yet there's something cathartic, 
About giving voice to this pain. 
My emotions suddenly seem so vain. 
I feel light as a feather, 
Stopped staying up till three.
These clumsy but honest words, 
Have finally set me free.


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