Core

What's wrong and what's right?

we're thinking with all our might

while they decide black from white 

we slide through an endless plight 

clothes, food, and home don't suffice

we buy things for a six figure price 

It all went wrong- the earth's demise 

dogs are beaten, aloud their cries

for food while beggars pray 

and live as moments sway 

the system does nothing

in the hopes of a magical something 

the reality is dark, and doped on evil 

liquor in crystal glasses on refill 

why did we forget our place of being 

while destiny does not come with foreseeing 

indeed, the reality

tis birth of proclivity 

while perpetually are we, alone and sad

nobody cares...the world is mad 

-Aditi Shetty. 

   

Revelation

We walk on roads, narrow and wide

All our paths universally collide 

While some live and some die

For different reasons we all cry 

We do not decide to be born

But decide to live, from dusk to dawn

The word 'life' may be scientifically defined

But it does not lead us to any confines

It give and gives, and takes even more

But even then, life we adore 

So until your number sweet death dials

I hope the crying sun makes you smile

-Aditi Shetty. 

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

Wrong turn

Someday you'll tell her: If I could choose to love someone, I'd choose you 

She'll look at you with her heaven brown eyes 

Smile and chuckle over her hand 

While a cupid has come to land 

She glances in you

then the cupid's arrow through you

She hits you with her supreme touch

While a hole in your heart as such

You'll never get her, she's not meant for you 

But if I could give my heart, for her I'd give two

I'd give all I am, and even my life

Even though God knows, we'll never be wives

She is Love; my stars, my universe 

But us, we're made inverse 

Love is selfless, says the books

I can't ignore her transcendent looks

We'll never be one, now I know 

But I'll always love you, I just won't show

I wish, to them, all luck  and well

To those on who she casts her spell

But I'll be here, as I hope

That you take my hand, and we elope

-Aditi Shetty.

Fortnight's one third

Blood bleeds

And my emotions plead 

mind is confused 

Soul- an absconding muse 

What questions do I ask?

Thoughts are dark, when I wear my mask

But arrives the omnipotent love

Smiling at yellow sky above 

She tells me it's time, 

"Move on, don't live on her dime"

"Who are you?", I ask as a fool 

She says,

"I'm Love darling, it's your turn to swoon"

I flick my hair and trot ahead,

Ego gets to my head

Then I look back at her,

And she's singing instead 

I ask, "Why are you here, what's even your power?" 

She smiles, says nothing, and gives me a flower

I look back again, she's gone

But then I realise-

She was Love, for whom we long

I gaze at her flower,

Crushed in my fist, the past hour 

Then my fingers let go

As I cry in joy and emotions flow

-Aditi Shetty 

99's 21st

Money, Knowledge, Power
Us humans, we devour
Freedom, Peace, Love
Oh, the devil's dove
Independence, Answers, Certainty
An illusion that breaks humanity
Curiosity, Questions, Assumptions
Ah! creatures' connections
Pretence, Lies, Hate
True feelings, used as bait
Following our dark universe
Hearts lost, and our minds traverse

-Aditi Shetty