How can I not be a poet?
when all I know about true love is
- it exists.
Yet I decide to unlove.
When the voices in my head
are louder than the noices of the crowd.
How can I not be a poet!
when I have realised how not okay
I am! For how long!
When I cry in public transport
going through hell my whole life.
How can I not be a poet?
When I chose to love even when damaged.
I will heal, from all that I never deserved.
All the hurt inflicted.
All the pain inculcated.
The broken parts of me would heal too.
I will heal and until I heal
Till then I will be toxic,
toxicto anyone who tries to love me.
Till then, how can I not be a poet?
When my frequency of panic attcks is exponentially increasing.
My attendance gradually decreasing.
When staying up all night is all I do.
See, my poetry comes from a very ugly place,
I once called my home.
How can I not be a poet?
When I made people my home,
but burnt bridges all way.
When all that is abstract hurts
All that drains.
How can I not be a poet?
When I feel detached from reality for months.
Days without emotionally responding, Without feeling my self lately.
(but his completely)
How can I not be a poet?
When I know I will never
be able to tell anyone
what I have been haunted by,
How can I not be a poet?
I wonder how can I not be a poet!!!
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BEHIND THE TEXS
PoetryAn anthology of all the poems I wrote for the the boy whose silent treatment made me a writer.This book is a collection of all the texts I died to send but couldn't, or unsent if sent hence the name BEHIND THE TEXTS.
