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Writer's pictureAkanksha B.

Empty: A Poem

I wish I could pour into you.

Pour in till you flow.

Pour in till I was empty, I thought.


But,

I am so empty,

that empty has a new definition

and it's not as easy as I thought it would be.


I look at you smiling once in a while

and I think to myself,

this is it.

This moment is the one

I want my life to pass in.


And in the next moment,

all of it is like a happy dream.


Your eyes look at me,

no, through me like I'm a transparent glass.

And I'm looking for meaning

in what aren't spoken words.


One moment,

your hand's grip almost makes me gasp.

The other,

you hold it like a stranger,

trying to help a blind woman cross a path.


Songs that have no meaning

whilst you sing along,

I hear you sing;

grazing on what little meaning I can find in them.


I look and look,

and I find nothing but empty shells of lost pearls,

waiting to be reinstalled.


How blind a head

and a soul I must be to not see,

all this while,

I wished I could pour into you.

Pour in till you flow.


Did pour in till I was empty.

And beyond.


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Pankaj Chougule
Pankaj Chougule
09 juil. 2020

Beautiful write!

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