Sage It’s difficult to find company In the darkness Night lamp doesn’t qualify Nor do walls and ceiling And searching inside oneself That one piece of meat and bones That one owns And they inevitably realise One who seeks company can’t provide it To their own self An untethered leaf floating in a stream Eventually … Read more
Talking with Walls They call me a loner But I am always with myself Become a bird on my shoulder That whispers in my ears I talk and I also listen Asking questions I myself answer Many times I laugh aloud At a joke I tell myself But they keep spreading lies That I am … Read more
Dead Weight He walked silently in the dark For ages had been doing that Night is all he had seen Had no memories of light Past scrubbed by unending aches And that dangling dead weight Didn’t know when, it had creeped up Silently on his back And reason why he dragged in pain A load … Read more
These lines are written in response to a prompt on https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/three-things-challenge-m37/ It’s a different take on the words quiet, solitude and space. A different way to think about them. Quite, Solitude & Space We think in absolutes Mind rigid to any change In a hunt for a little quiet We turn stone deaf Searching for … Read more
Quirks of Night In darkness of the night In the bed, on the couch One waits for sleep To kiss one’s eyes There’s not much thought Dead silence rules In that lonesome state of mind A lot is revealed That daylights won’t show Though night has that quirk Takes one back To relive the hurts … Read more
Shadow Running along Most of the times Sometimes Below Often behind Dumping me When needed most In loneliness of the Long night ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Have your ever been so lonely That whatever you speak Just echoes around Refusing to fade And go away Have you ever been so lonely That winds and rains Keep avoiding you Not one drop landing On your outstretched arms Have you ever been so lonely That the only thing That follows you Is the … Read more