The Confinement

And there she sat weeping

In a cold, dark corner of the untidy room,

The drops of silent fear

Trickling down her swollen cheeks,

The pulse beating non-rhythmically

Her bruised eyes and purple black parts

Are unable to justify the immense pain;

Yes! He has done it again,

Like a thousand times before,

Adding another chapter to his broken promises

These abuses and beatings never ended for her,

More of a caged bird, she was

Like a mechanism of pleasure…

The first time, he laid hands on her,

She tried escaping,

But his deeds are more painful,

For she remembers the broken glass

That he used pierce her tender parts;

The day she had nearly died,

But lived to die a thousand deaths every day,

And since then after every abuse

She lay sitting in her dark confinement

Weeping, cursing to be born,

With just a will to survive,

To stand against her emotions

Just for once, not to be defeated within,

And break the confinement

Fly free like an unchained soul.

Shadow of the Forgotten

Been in the storm, a year too long,

Lonely and cold the wind blows,

The rain drops reminding of the conjured memories

Tormenting the bruised soul –

This night of incessant writhing downpours hatred

Of the love that once betrayed the heart

Shattered and ripped, a new wound gaped,

The bleeding never stops

For the wound has been sculpted over again;

And it seems there’s no escape

From this defying misery and pain,

Stuck in a maze of sadness

Where serenity never reigns,

As fate stares straight to the condemned darkness

And nothing left to forfeit the pain.

Living in a world of dreams where nothing exists

Except the numbness that plagues my mind,

The words fell on deaf ears

And not a pulse beats the same,

Dying slowly, day by day within,

Poisonous tears drowning your sin,
Beholding pieces of shattered frames

Conjuring into a turmoil of maddening bind,

Convicted in a prison of your thoughts

I shudder in a cocoon of hurtful remains,

Resign myself from this pain forever more

For once let me live and free my half dead soul.