Feelings, Not Here To Stay

By Unnati Naik

Do you sometimes wish, that you were someone else?

Someone like her, she's so pretty

Someone like him, he's so smart

Someone like that person who had the confidence that you admire

Mostly, why aren't you more like them?

Do you wish to be more ideal?

Have that perfect body, have that extravagant knowledge

Have that level of confidence, that smoothness in communication

Wish to have those perky and savage replies

Or just wish you were more productive or simply more polite?

I wonder if you've had those moments,

In which you feel that a stranger has stolen your life

Achieved all you dreamt of, even before you could pen it down in time

I wonder if you've been extremely jealous of this guy

Who gets everything that you kept working for

And relatively easily, plus within defined time

I wonder if those happy Instagram photos have made you cry

Not having some things which wouldn't have mattered,

Except you wanted them and they got it WITHOUT a hint of effort!

Oh my

And I wonder if you've felt pathetic,

Cause you like someone even when they're taken

You don't want to betray anyone,

But it's like your heart had its own mind,

I wonder if you feel stupid,

Cause you were supposed to be super ambitious and achieve crazy heights

But instead, you have a war with yourself on some mornings

To simply get up, get dressed, and reach in time!

I know it feels lost, it feels alone

It feels wrong and all against those ethical scripts inscribed in our brain

But we're humans, and we will have emotions!

Just don't worry, this isn't a disaster

The feelings are not here to stay

By Unnati Naik