Showing posts with label I wanted to tell you what you were doing to me.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I wanted to tell you what you were doing to me.. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

cigarette smoke

The sun rises and sets. Between dreams I’ve forgotten you’ve changed and my life’s moved on. I’m caught in that nightmare where you’re letting go and I’m wondering why.
I’ve hidden the cards you made, the words you said. The friendship beads you slipped around my wrist, the secrets you whispered in my ears. Like cigarette smoke they made intricate designs in the air but meaningless, as they shaped according to air, and disappeared.
I hid everything but I am yet to fully hide the memories that play in my head, maybe I had hurriedly swallowed time, but never forgotten the flavor.
So you make your way to me now, even though in reality, you talk to the people you swore were never your type, you’re walking away so fast from me that you’re running, you hate because I remind you of what you’re becoming but you’re forgetting I don’t even know what that is.

I thought it was fair to fight it out, right it out, confide but never hide.
I have made mistakes, I know what they are, I meant to apologize. I do. I see you logging in and signing out, and I don’t say a word.
I type a letter in my head an hour later, I’m writing it now, people who don’t know me would’ve read but you would’ve never heard.

Push

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Rest in peace Scottie...


Brown eyes
Brown eyes
I'm searching for you
You were In my arms
When I was in class 5
I'm aching for you

Breathe in breathe out
Breathe easy
My baby
Innocent, your heart
Although you trust nobody

Walk with me
Did I let you down?
Did you somewhere
Trust me
And I let you drown?

My heart is in chains
Brown eyes
Don't die
I'll take it all back
And again
You'll be mine

Fire
In your soul
Anger
In your mouth
Spiralling out of control
Lashing at the crowd

But then you
Change
Rearrange
Win me over again
How many second chances
Till the pain hits again

Your hair
On my clothes
In my blood
My love
Can't dilute
But it floods

My eyes with tears
Brown eyes
I love you
I held you
Till the end
I promise
Its true

Brown eyes
There will always be
A void in my heart
Brown eyes forgive me
But I loved you from the start

Wednesday, January 23, 2008




It takes something more this time. More to simply believe and much more to trust. I know I’ll never be the same again. Just the way an innocent flower grows to discover the sun, the earth and the rain…how it cherishes these elements, but realizes one traumatic day that the wind that sways it from side to side- almost lovingly, can uproot it within a second.
That the earth it grows from cannot protect it.
That the sun can burn it to nothingness and the rainwater can drown it.
It discovers all this, but it doesn’t see the thorns that grow on its own stem or how it is born to attract attention with its beauty- its wonderful velvet petals, silently unfolding, sending an intoxicating scent in the air, just to be suddenly touched- and draw blood.

It takes more to hold a hand. It takes more face the changing colours of life, and not drink to them.

I don’t blame the experiences that have done this to me. I just don’t want to break my shell.

***

Push

Monday, December 31, 2007

Black Stone Heart

Black Stone Heart


Black stone heart
Feel so trapped
With a black stone heart

Unmoving, unfeeling-
Painfully revealing
All the things I did wrong
While I was hoping to belong

Black stone heart
Broken cold and empty
Replays happier times to me
Builds fruitless fantasies

Rising up from the ground
Hoping to be found
It mingles with the wind
It’s lost again

Tied up with chains inside
So its pieces may not fall
Tied up inside
It lives within a wall

Black stone heart
My enemy
Black stone heart
No warmth within me

Black stone heart
I want you to die
Take me with you
No more can I cry

I can’t fix you
Can’t mend you
Can’t make it all right
Black stone heart
How long can we fight?

You are me
And I am you
We’re so different
But stuck with glue

Let’s give it up now
No one will see
Break it up now
And let each other be

This is for us
My black stone heart
This is just
To break us apart

You will beat no more
I will no longer be
The chains around you will fall
Finally freed

Blackness to embrace
Black stone heart
An identity to erase
Death does us part.

Pushpanjali Banerji
Nov'07

Saturday, October 20, 2007

apathetic

I don’t know you at all
You broken, screwed up- apathetic
I don’t know you at all
Your words disgust me

You’re down on the floor again
Begging and pleading
Your vivid display of emotions misleading
Kicking and screaming
Get up you
I don’t know you at all

Stop, stop with the crying
Stop with the praying
Stop with the bullshit tears
Stop with the childish fears

Pulling at your hair
Sobbing in despair
Bleeding from the start
Bleeding from your heart

Foolishly raped
Stupidly drowned
You still haven’t escaped
Repeatedly downed

Go kill yourself in a corner
Where no one would see
Embrace your own torture
Where no one would be

So get up you
Get out of me
Get up you
Get the fuck out of me
Get the fuck out of me

Stop staring at me
From the mirror
Stop bringing me down
Die out with your fervor

I don’t know you at all
You broken, screwed up- apathetic
I don’t know you at all
Your being disgusts me


-pushpanjali banerji

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Regret

The scene plays on
With an enchanting song
Within my head
Against a shade of red.

I speculate
The drama disseminates
Into various sides of me
Into a psychotic fantasy

The cloud bursts
It breaks-
It takes-
Me in.
Colors-
Stream out-
As the light grows dim

Reflections in the mirror
Stare at me
A face I can’t remember
Is all I can see

My body trembles
My words fumble
I’ve loaded the gun
The fun has just begun

I smile as thoughts
Breeze through my brain
Feeling my anger
Feeling my pain

The drama takes its turns
My heart shivers and burns
As laughter echoes through the air
Someone is crying somewhere

I stand up from the floor
I wont sit anymore
The colors are too bright
This has to end tonight.

Has it rained blood
From the skies
Or has it emerged from the ground
Is it visible to just my eyes
Or has it finally been found?

I will awaken
When the drama ends
I will awaken
When the dialogues descend

The colors seem to be fading
The theme strained
The words splattered
The characters shattered

Why do I feel so different
Have I changed
Or am I deranged

The series of pictures
With the flowing etude
My paradise
My escapement
Falls silent after subdue

I submerge into reality
And realize that I cant
Locked within glass
Am I free at last?

I feel so trapped
So deserted
So empty
Is this my future
My destiny?

I see my body lying
In a pool of blood
Silently dying
Its screams unheard

So much it has felt
Heard and seen
Life would have been long
If my soul wasn’t stuck in between

What have I done
I came out alive everytime
What have I done
I’ve destroyed my own time.



Pushpanjali Banerji

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sometimes Vicious Husband

Sometimes Vicious Husband


Broken rays of light
Illuminate shattered glass.
It was another hard night
That’s ended at last.

I watch as they sparkle,
Stained with my blood
Luminous pieces of glass-
At least when you shattered
You were heard.

Tears flow down my face
As I unwillingly retrace
I wish I could drown the pain
I pray I wouldn’t be battered again

He makes his way towards me
His footsteps heavy and loud
I tremble as fear invades me
A cry from within suddenly aloud

I don’t want to hold these hands who beat me
And hold me not to make me whole
Who use their strength to defeat me
And scar my heart and soul

His eyes scan
My mangled state
Sympathy in his tone
Designed to devastate

In one swift movement
He lifts my bloodied body
Distancing himself from my lament
He places a pillow beside me

I look at his face
His features-
Twisted in animation
His words are calming
Aiming to erase
All my anger, hate, intimidation

Deteriorate and die
The bond of marriage mocks me
No more tears I can bear to cry
For what this man does to me

Society says he’s my friend
Tradition says he’ll be there till the end
Through the ups and downs we strive
And I wonder how long I will survive

He brushes my hair aside
Holds me gently, sits down beside
I stare at the face of my lover
My savior
My friend
And sometimes vicious husband

Push Banerji.