THE SWORD OF LIFE – Delhi Poetry Slam

THE SWORD OF LIFE

By Dr Divya Susan Thomas

Forcing myself to delete fallen phrases from my memory,
Trying to pick up fallen pleasures,
Trying to forget thoughts that haunt me like a nightmare,
Trying to pick up my broken self-confidence,
I endure each moment with a sword cut through my heart.


Sometimes it seems so futile my existence,
Sometimes a joke for others to laugh at,
Melting away like a candle
Waiting to be moulded back,
Into something stronger that cuts their tongue like a dagger!

My dreams are getting unreachable day after day,
My tears wetting my pillow throughout the night,
With the fear of losing people, I loved
Losing hope is just as filling up a hydrogen balloon
Which could have reached the stars by now!


I seek help, but none lends a helping hand,
I seek knowledge, but it is phobic to my thoughts,
I seek love, but I found none worth loving for,
I heed but find none speaking the truth,
I listened to my inner self, but it started betraying me.

I live a lifeless being,
More dead than alive,
More neglected than accepted,
Trying to escape this rotten land,
And merge with the stars that people wish upon.

But fate throws me like a boomerang,
Some magnetism or gravity pulling me back,
I wonder 'why?’, but there is an answer
Which is overcoming the mountain of fear I lived with
To prove myself worthy of living the life I dreamed of.


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