A blank sheet of paper
Stares at me and waits
To be given a name, and identity
Before being declared as waste
As yet another piece of crap
And joining the others before
That now lie defaced and crumpled
All over the floor.
The pen that lies beneath
Is the same that took a drunken stroll
Top and bottom, left and right
On what is now a torn paper ball.
It waits, and I struggle
To pick up a pen and write
The suitable syllables, the apt alphabet
But words and me have had a fight.
Ah words!My disloyal friends...
They always desert me in times of need.
Like shadows in the dark they leave me alone
Struggling, speechless, left to bleed.
As silence digs deep its claws on me
Piercing my soul, intensity unabated.
Yet another overwhelming moment
Passes by-wordless, unrecorded.
It's the same old game today as well
I wanna say it but dunno how to tell.
No permutation of letters seems to capture
The blankness that on this sheet and my mind does dwell
I stare back at the sheet staring at me
And then at the pen lying at the side
I shut my eyes and take a deep breath
I muster all my courage...and, I decide.
I decide I'm gonna hand it as it is
And leave it to the reader to derive any sense
Sometimes words can say a lot.
Even by the virtue of their sheer absence.
7 comments:
Keep wondering, I'm never dedicated:))))
But yes, i agree totally with missing words making sense. That alongwith the pgh I've put in bold font is the only bit i like abt this poem. Otherwise it was just a scribble at the ack of my notebook when I sat down to write something far more important, sensible cosequential and boring.:P
Sometimes words can say a lot.
Even by the virtue of their sheer absence.
These are the lines i liked the most. Silence says a lot ... but stupid people like me always end up misunderstanding it.
Has the stanza in bold already been read by me, or is it just that it resembles some earlier crap of yours??
anyways, as always, the poem is really beautiful. Modesty has its own levels, but Taru Kapoor has none. Call 'em crap, call em' anything...who cares? They'll always remain cool.
well words seems to have deserted me too for this comment :D
mez speechless :)
pretty gud one...
Awesome!
@Andy
Yeah, u've read it
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@everyone
Thanx a lot
Cool..can i use these for a song??or can u make me some like these?
this is my email... edudilauu@yahoo.com
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