Paper Weight

By Vasundhara Avinash Daberao

You can’t accept something can you? Like stubborn rude hostile territory Weirdly adorable ammunition inventory I can’t expect anything from you..

Other than you being you

Acting like we never met

Knew fooling myself all new

Won’t help me to get tranquil state

If I can make you smile

Covertly even for a while

I would breath my last sigh in peace Few numbered moments on lease

What role should I play?

To get a little place in your land

I can’t stop wondering all day

About you, without how life is bland

I have waited so long

Felt like millennia, a decade

In hope you’ll come along

Should I end my apathetic façade?

Why in the first place I lost

I regret not holding back

With each day it costs

Strength to rebuild I lack, lilac

Wonder if I will ever feel the same Endearment from you as I feel for you Breaths back life in me even your name Listen to my beats and what they groove

Not a humongous task

Neither tax I could impose, love

A little affection and care is all I ask Only if, stars finally made the move

But they are way too lazy

More busy, careless or ignorant? I suppose their sight is hazy

They can’t see mon amour is important

How exquisite is this love uninvited Empowering and draining at the same time Incomplete yet brimming, unrequited Scorching and soothing rhyme

On the brink of existence, mate

Only thing left for me to do

Nothing but to overthink my fate

Useless paper weight am I too?

By Vasundhara Avinash Daberao