We Were Never Dancing

By Shradha Bhairavnath Lugade

I started like an arrow then I lost my aim,

I would bleed out the blood of your name.

I’m built like fireworks trying to chase stars,

I’m acting out my very own cards.

I pull out the dagger and let it bleed,

That’s the only way I’ve known ever since.

Somehow it’s all wrong,

You slipped through the cracks in my walls.

Dancing in circles,

I wasn’t planning on listening to any oracles.

Heartbeat rose on my behalf,

I used to wish you could hear it through my anxious laugh.

We were playing by the strings until I struck some nerve again,

You dropped a piece of my heart while you took it away.

You started bleeding through my walls held up so high for so long,

Took me a while to see we were dancing but never dancing along.

I couldn’t pick a card and you wouldn’t fold,

Eyes were wide open so I shut the door.

There we were in another news,

And the writings on the walls,

We were planning to bring them down.

I didn’t want to be your muse,

I left and you became mine now,

And what can I say the footsteps were loud.

I won’t delay the truth,

I hope in the end long before we die,

We can just smile at each other and everything else loses meaning for a while.

By Shradha Bhairavnath Lugade