Devoid

Devoid

Avoid conversation

Avoid a glance

Rather let eyes read

Than voices speak

Avoid contact,

To have time with self

Forget about others

Let them feel by themselves

Memories,

Times we share

Small ones

Forgotten out of thin air

See them in the hallway

And move on

Every look

Is a memory forgotten

Tears seen 

Weren’t our own

Laughs seen

We had caused

Now never will be seen by eyes

And felt by more

Because we

Avoid conversation

Drift apart

Let our worlds slowly depart…

Forget about them

They were never meant to be

Something as simple 

As a human being

I Am More

I Am More

I have been sad

I was sad

And I will be sad

But I am not today

I am more than just my pain

More than the words I write

And more than the thoughts I fight

I will let my tears fall where they may

And I will let the sun come my way

Soaking in

And letting out

The beautiful rainbow 

Yet to arc

And once I cry

Tears won’t come my way

Because I am more than the sorrow;

The tears

The agony

Of these cold days…

I have myself

From birth to death

And will never be alone

In that sense

So I was sad

And will be 

But a gift I see

For mind and body

A cherishing of the day

As the ‘present’ it embodies

Loyalty

Loyalty

Hold on

Don’t run,

There’ll always be someone  else shining ...

But not the sun

Can we count on the person

To not look

Not be tempted by its cruel allure

Can loyalty grasp their heart,

More than an image that will never last?

Nothing is perfect...

Like the first week’s spark

It will dissolve,

But remnants of love will not

So can that hold us through the dark?

Where roots are to the soil,

And ever

Is for us

-Sanjana Karthik

Materialistic

Success,

A feeling I long to taste

But not to savor

To obtain it for the thrill

And not its flavor

Because  we are competing

Fighting

Making life so interesting

And thriving

Fighting for a job

A title,

a dollar bill

Which means so little

As we leave earth

Never feeling fulfilled

As your job

Your title

Your dollar bill

Will never let you cross...

Life’s biggest hill

Life

Live life to feel all you're meant to feel

To experience all you dwell

But no matter what 

A price couldn’t

Let you sell

Live life to meet people,

That will mean so much,

Hurt so much

But give much more

Change the world

Breed the world

Conceive the world

And raise as if your own

But what is the point in trying to learn

Trying to experience

Meet

And taste the world?

When it will dissipate

All in a second

What is the meaning of living 

In this world?