Hurdle

Black
pain all over
screaming
tears on my face
sunset: a lost memory
help: a deprived necessity
white lights, blue coats
unattended with dry throats
woke up like a crying baby
our fathers and hail mary
A gloomy room
With a 'Get well soon' balloon
A familiar face
Pure grace
Home no sweet home
Missing mom to the bones
Fights, tantrums, cold shoulders
Smoke steaming out my ears
Incapable to fend
My sweet summer's dead end

-Aditi Shetty.

G o n e

Your transparent veins
On my brains
Can't forget your perfume
Your eyes, with sunshine, bloom
You've gone and I'm still here
Why did we not, disappear?
I'm helplessly alone
Stuck in a dark whole
Waiting in deluded hope
But distance abstains me to cope
How do I kill the stabbing pain?
When I lost my universe, my core, my main
You were my first, my temporary muse
Love is but, always abused

-Aditi Shetty