The Years of Shredded Hope – Delhi Poetry Slam

The Years of Shredded Hope

By Aayushman Bhardwaj

How suffocating it is to fill my lungs
With an air that leads me to death
Slowly poisoning thought that lurks
Everytime I catch my breath

Delusional is this body still making me
Gasp for something that intoxicates
My mind and on whole corrupts me
Something which suffocates

Yet I couldn't live without it
It has been too long to turn around
In fresh air leisurely I can't sit
In those toxins I am drowned

I am a poet I don't speak straight
Nor am I talking of the polluted air
The two years of toxic life I state
The gloomy shredded hope given is so unfair

What they sent was a child wishing
For success to come, but came out
A machine lifeless and struggling
To settle in a place of unknown whereabouts

In an unknown den, dwelled by emotions
By feelings, that were long faded lost
The memories I don't even vaguely mention
Blank paper never tell a tale not even of lost

But whom should I blame, my parents
Who dreamt, the society I neglect
Or myself who aspired killed his talents
And now it's long gone do I desire to act


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