i AM TIRED OF EXPLAINING TO PEOPLE THAT EVEN THOUGH I LOVE WRITING 'SAD LOVE POETRY,' I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP...A BIT OF IMAGINATION CAN MAKE ONE EMPATHIZE WITH THE MOST BROKEN- HEARTED OF PEOPLE...I HOPE NOBODY ELSE ASKS ME: "Diya, are you okay?" To which I reply with a bewildered "WHY?" and to which they say,"Oh your poems are so sad, they talk so passionately about sadness in love." And then there are so many people who will go on to say: "Who would have thought you can write such sad poetry? You are always so happy and cheerful. Do you harbor hurt inside?" PLEASE!! GUYS, writers are meant to be imaginative beings.
I don't have to explain this to my close friends and family who know me, thank Heavens.
THE POEM WHICH I WROTE TO TRIGGER OFF THE REACTIONS:
Tonight I'll let you go,
Though you were never mine;
Tonight we're on our own, yet
I know that you'll be fine.
Tonight I heave a sigh,
As my green-dreams pass me by;
Silently disillusioned, I cry,
"Oh Dreams, you lie, you lie."
Tonight my eyes are wet,
But my mind is firm and set;
For, wait a while yet I won't
Since none of my needs were met.
(Just because I didn't have many,
Doesn't mean that I don't have any.)
Tonight I'm just, well, sad;
Though I have reasons to be glad;
There are so many more people to add,
On to the list of friends I've had.
Soon my eyes will be dry,
I'll no longer need to cry,
I'll no longer question "Why?",
As the days will pass me by.
They say Time heals all,
Even skin-marks left by a fall.
But Time alone will tell,
If it can mend a broken heart well.
Tonight I've set you free,
Will you never think of me?
Tonight I've let you go,
Though you were never mine.
Tonight we're on our own,
Will I really be fine?
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I face this so often!..not poetry but prose..deep n melancholic sometimes...n ppl have msged me saying 'I hope u deal with it'..n some of them they got depressed reading the blog!...people are so like people...:)
hahaha! Love this post! Just love it! I love it when you're actually angry about something. You're quite fierce then! Go Ranting Queen! You've conquered our hearts again
--Your minion.
Thank you, you dear girls...thanks for the solidarity
Ei je, Sacred sprites, you are a Royal girl, no minion of mine...and btw, yes, I know, I hardly get angry, and neither do you...and when I do, I feel like laughing...haha...even with my students, instead of getting angry, I just set high expectations of them, in terms of behavior...I tell them that I like them and I expect them to behave in a certain way...mostly works. Mostly, being ZE operative word.
Sometimes when I get really angry, I start crying, you know that Sacredsprites. Btw, I love how Keats addressed Fanny as My Dear Girl in his letters...remember 'Bright Star?'
OH!!!'Bright Star'!!! Btw I finally watched the film, did I tell you? And Ben Whishaw as Keats is just perfection <3
ABSOLUTELY...HE LOOKS CONSUMPTIVE TO THE TEE
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