Dhimss

Dhimss Nov 2021

Eighteen

I Remember, I was twelve.
It was the first time I stayed up the whole night.
Not because I could but because my friend said I couldn't.
Curled with a book, stifling yawn after yawn.
I watched the sun rise
So elated. So naive.
Afterall who'd willingly pass up on sleep if not a child.

I remember I was twelve
Escaping clutches of sweet sleep.
Six years later I lay in bed,
Struggling to call the sleep I pushed away.
Staring aimlessly, frustrated,
screaming into a pillow, clutching it tightly.
6:40am IST
My eyes sting and relentless tears stream from them falling like caresses on my cheek.
I twist, I turn.
I try and try some more,
Then slowly succumb to boredom,
Seeking the sleep I hid from.

I m not sure if this is a poem.

#idiot #hideandseek #twelve #guiltypleasure #eighteen #640 #noise #sleep

Dhimss Jun 2021

Without me.

I think you'll live without me.
Soon,
Your hands will get used to resting on her hips.
The scent of her hair would become your safety.

I think you'll live without me.
You'd make breakfast for her,
see her in your tee-shirt.
You'll fall for her messy hair,
sleepy voice.
You'll brush away her tresses
just to sit staring into her eyes..

I think you'll live without me.
You'll smile a little wider,
Laugh a little harder
and maybe finally,
learn to pose.
You'll have the cutest pictures,
Cuter than anyone's out there.

I think you'll live without me.
And this time,
She won't walk away.
She won't,
because you wouldn't hurt her.
You wouldn't let her.

You won't do it all wrong again
because she isn't me.

I was your first. Your learning curve.
She? She'd be your last. Your forever.

#lovepainsorrowheartbreakgriefsheihurt

Dhimss Apr 2021

So, I did a Thing

I moved on.

#letgo #moveon

Dhimss Apr 2021

Angels

Panic and Perplex were angels,
Until God, grounded them.
Mid-Flight.

Haiku

#haiku #angels #god #confusion #perplex #panic #flight #fall

Dhimss Feb 2021

Mass among Millions

We're millions out here
divided and split.
We keep hearing, we're ultimate,
all powerful.

Branded terrorists for being better citizens.
Powerless, Punished, Brutalised to succumb.
Stripped off honour for questioning to right the wrong's will.

We're out here in millions
running a blind race
Robbed of individuality.
Running, just to stay safe.

Standing in millions
counting days, taken for granted, number's sake.
We're many things
lassoed beneath many other names

Tomorrow's citizens, the growing population
Students.
Tomorrow's citizens, the growing population

The reality of the student community

#students #masses #millions

Dhimss Jan 2021

Hypocrite.

Mirror Mirror on the wall,
Tell no lies of who I am.

Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Stop showing my fragmented self.

A broken me, is perhaps all there is to see.

#hypocrite #mirror #fragments #broken

Jan 2021

Luna Maria

I N K

tears
are the ink
for the pen
a poet uses
to write

- L.M.

#ink #poet #poem #write