Some days weigh heavy on your heart; they shove their judgements and cripple angst amidst the calm you've been breeding. This poem is about one of those days.

Transcript:

My vision seems blurred today

I think it’s filled with rage

My eyes are an ocean

I think it’s the tears

My cheeks feel warm

I think it’s the embarrassment

I sit in a corner and cry

Beg you to stop

Tell you I am trying

But are you listening?

You told me I stink of betrayal

You told me that I was a zero

And you kept repeating

Repeating till each spectrum of my confidence exploded

You forgot all the moments I have spent crying

All the moments I kept trying

You told me results won’t matter

Not if I worked hard enough

Not if I showed passion

And I did, I tried, I persevered

But you have been sly

You have been smart

And you have been a liar.

Each morning I look at you

And I see you look back at me

I see the disappointment in your eyes

Your screams at my failures haunt me each night

Your impatience towards me increases with time

And your hatred towards me gets unbearable with each passing moment.

And I try very hard to set you free

Free from miseries, free from the pain, free from me

But is it ever possible to set one free from oneself?

This poem is for all those who've been waiting for something or someone with glistening stars in their eyes and boundless hope in their hearts.

Transcript:

When the gloomy winter evening takes over

When your arrival is just an insane idea

When hopes have left each heart they lodged in

I’ll wait for you

I’ll try to look beyond the mist

I’ll keep the curtains apart all day

I’ll not let myself fall prey to the pessimism around me

For I know your shine is inevitable

Sometimes, you delay but you never deny

And that is why I’ll wait for you

Even when I am stuck in a desert of disapprovals

When your presence is compared to a mirage

I won’t let go of my hopes

I’ll run to each mirage

For I know even if I don’t find you a 100 times

You’ll be there somewhere

Finding me in other places

And if this is destiny’s test, I know we’ll succeed

For even if you take a lifetime,

I’ll wait for you.

I’ll wait for you like a child lost in the midst of the city

I’ll cry my heart out

But I won’t bury my belief

I won’t let the city lights blind me

Or the incessant noises mislead me

I’ll look around in each direction

For I know you’ll be arriving from one

And I will, always, wait for yo

"Hollow" attempts to address the indescribable void that seeps in at odd moments in life. It will accompany the perplexity and will empathise with the obscurity of the situation that the hollow of life puts one in.

Transcript:

There’s a hollow in my life

And I am not sure what it is

There’s a hollow in my life

And I’ve heard you whisper about it

There are moments in my life

When I feel I can tell exactly what it is

Maybe that missing dream,

that missing moment,

that missing person,

Or maybe my thoughts are not my own

It’s a string entangled on my finger

The same string your whispers unleashed

Or is it a dream I saw last night

Which gifted glimpses of utopia

And made me feel incompetent to ever attain it

Or is it my time on the social media

Which weaves fairy tales and masters perfection

And makes me question every flaw I have ever had

Or is it you?

The reflection I see each morning,

Smiling back at me with hushed tones

Hiding layers beneath to save me from the storm,

And whispering tales to perplex life’s austerity.