Ordeal

 Looking for a feeling 

That does not exist

Hoping for God's healing

While I persist

I forgot who's the enemy 

I forgot who's the hero 

Then it all came back to me 

When I was looking in the mirror 

It was I, I realised 

While my body glared into my eye

I punched myself, then picked myself up

And threw away my thoughts, like water from a tub

I moved the ground beneath my feet

 Fell into a grave, 13.ft deep 

What did I do, why did I?

A voice came back, I'm human, aren't I?

While candles burned 

My lessons I learned 

To look back and smile

While I ride my own mile 

-Aditi Shetty 

Retrospect

 

I forget reality, to realise my weaknesses

So that I could stand up, when life hits me on my knees

I forgot that money manipulates and creates delusions

Because I became greedy

I forgot that loving myself is enough

Because I looked for another to create joy within me

I forgot that empathy is golden

Because I transformed through cruelty

But mostly, I forgot that I can thrive

Because I was reduced by my own darkness

But I raise my cup of life, and pay cheers to oblivion

Because if I didn’t forget,

What good would remembering do?

What good would joy do, if we didn't remember suffrage?

Will history ever be re-written, if it wasn't for wars that bought peace?

Balance- the universe's magic

Let go, close your eyes, and feel the silence of harmony

Because the tighter you clench your fists to posses it, 

the more your own nails will scar your skin

-Aditi Shetty