One Piece...

This one is about how writing is cathartic for a poet/writer...anybody who writes to let out steam and come to terms with situations will surely agree to the emotions depicted here...Viva la poetry!!!

It’s just something I feel……something I wish would get out of me……

Something that would free me from bonds that bind me and choke my soul.

I try hard to scream, to shout, to get the demons out of my head……

But the shadows are always there, chasing me, in light as in darkness!

I try to stifle the pain, with a smile on my face, a song on my lips

I laugh out aloud, I crack silly jokes….but it just won’t go.

I cry on the shoulders of a friend, seek reprieve in my beloveds’ arms.

I lose myself in my work, and get busy with projects and assignments.

I wonder sometimes what it is that bugs me, and whether it’s just me like this?

I know a lot of people who smile, sing and crack silly jokes

I have had friends crying on my shoulders, have given them consolation

I have seen people losing themselves in work, just like me……

But, again I wonder, when I get time away from my sorrows…..

How many people get to release their pressures….emotional and otherwise?

How many can actually try to get off the suffocation….like I can….

By clicking on the keyboard, or running my hands across a sheet of paper!

A cathartic moment comes, for me, when I can get to express myself.

How truly Wordsworth had remarked, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…

And when I get too bogged down by the demons in my mind, all I do is sit down, recollect and pen down my thoughts….

And something new is born, that kills all my pain….and I’m one piece again!!!!

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Rohini Chandrasekhar

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