Trapped in Circles

By Riya Sharma

But I still remember you,

At the places we kissed and the flowers you picked,

In the rains and the sunshine,

The rhythm of your heartbeat still rings in my ear,

The thought of losing you still makes me fear.

I do miss your tickles every now and then,

Recalling our anecdotes,

In the clouds of your false promises,

In the ashes of our chronicle,

I still believe that ours was a fairytale.

Falling for you was like heaven in disguise,

The majestic affection and the fairy flights,

Amidst the fantasies that I dreamt of,

About love, about life,

Well, they were true when I had you,

The smiles, the laughs, the giggles

Were a little more real,

When you were with them, or so to say in them.

Though today while sitting beside a barren tree

I decided to love each and every part of me.

The parts that have always begged for love

And the fears that made me rise above

They have compelled me to stop and look behind

To the stars and the eternal sunshine

Making me wonder how every time I used to look ahead

I lost the blessings I already had

In an attempt of catching the stars, I fell too hard to rise at all.

The fall had left me with these scars,

The fall had made me wither apart.

But these scares are now a part of me

They tell the tales of how mighty I could be

The agony turned my screams into roars

Thereby I gain the courage I could ever ask for.

By Riya Sharma