One-way ladder

Cold sweats 

Deep breaths 

Shivers run down my spine 

Fears exposed and entwine 

I tell myself, "one day at a time"

Survival earned by the hourly dime

Friends and strangers seem alike

Futile Instagram trends on spike

What's the point anyway?

It's all forgotten by the end of the day 

While souls hunting for purpose in bars

Attempting to alcoholize the void of their scars

The unacceptable doom of humanity

we are what we need, there is no path to sanity

Yes, you fool, we are all mad 

What else can we be, in a world so profusely sad?

-Aditi Shetty. 

Spontaneity

If fishes flew and birds swam 

and humans were dead, instead of being rammed

While the full moon serves a spotlight 

For all of humanity's plight 

will we give a damn

when a calf is pulled from her mothers pram

will we wince away when 

innocent lives are snatched from comforting dens 

Just take a moment, take a moment to think

about what we do just to eat flesh and drink their milk

why? why are we so apathetic 

We fail so miserably in our ethics

So fuck it all 

Break the rules 

Slam your cars 

Until we're all just dead and numb

and animals can have the earth to themselves, and not succumb

-Aditi Shetty.

Ambivalence +

 High spirited trips on finger tips 

eloquence drooling on fragile lips

the velvet blood within our veins

stitch the dark mask amongst our reigns

self-destructiveness, no one sees

hearts and mind, we numbingly seize 

negligible efforts and common minds 

lack of humour, and absconding true kinds

humanity is a doom 

progresses abstain from bloom

so come and go, as you may

life is nothing, and our spirits sway

survival be manually constructed,

we fear potential, and breathe- self-obstructed

break through the shackles of consciousness 

the ancestors await spirits' iridescence. 

-Aditi Shetty

Kavita

 Is a day really enough

To cherish our mothers' love? 

For all the sacrifices and troubles 

They take for us in doubles 

Those overtime shifts and missed vacations

To fill our lives towards quality inclinations

An ode to the best humans created on earth

That give us our best life, right from birth 

The first child symbolizes the birth of a mother 

And this oblivious child waits for a sister and a brother 

While the mother gives all she has 

She grows old as the days pass

Old care homes, we drag them in 

And silence obliges, like the drop of a pin

But wait a moment, your mother's heart you tore

Still her eyes, with love they glow 

Go, give her a hug and spend time together 

For moments like these, can be lost forever 

-Aditi Shetty

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