Sunday, September 24, 2006

Am I?

Not a bead glistens my eyelashes when I am in intractable trauma,
But can’t stop my surging tears when my hero dies in an onscreen drama;
Am I weird?

I crave and miss my loved one, whom I cannot see,
Is it because he is no longer there for ME?
Am I selfish?

I wish to pull the moon and wrap it around,
I long to get hold of Aladdin’s magic lamp to fulfill my wishes unbound;
Am I immature?

Death scares me, Rejection scoffs at me, Expectations tenses me,
The fear of losing my kith and kin terrifies me;
Am I a coward?

Am I weird, selfish, immature and a coward?
So many negatives huddled in a pod,
Am I a pessimist?

11 comments:

Self Writeous said...

Not Weird, selfish, coward or pessimist,
You are the anti-thesis of them all,
A woman you are, emotional pacifist,
You are the verdure in the fall :)

roy! said...

u r beautiful poet ..thts wat you are...and a very good frnd ...cheers!!!

Akshay Rajagopalan said...

Ever since I started strumming the guitar (a month back), I wanted to make a song, but couldn't find the lyrics. With minor changes (to fit into the rhythm), this one's perfect.
So may I go ahead with my project?

Unknown said...

@handfull of hell: wow!!..beautiful lines!

@roy:
Thanx :)

@akshay:I would be honoured!!:D

Gayatri said...

brilliant!

The Unpaid Analyst said...

Not Weird, selfish, coward or pessimist..u are just plain normal..

although i believe the pessimist shall inherit the world as anyone who is so optimistic,that he feels that his life is great importance is awfully close to a padded cell!

SaiK said...

too good and expressive ... best one till now among poems !!!

Unknown said...

@confused: thanku!!

@nikhil: true..and sometimes we have phases of optimism and pessimism though not as traits...!

@Sai: Thnxx...but best is yet to come ;)

Anonymous said...

Great ending Aneesha. You simply amalgamated those 4 words into one single entity. Beautiful! You should think of compiling all your poems into a book.

Kavitha Jay said...

wow..great lines..i guess this is how lot of ppl are...:)

Prasad Narulkar said...

The answer to all these questions is simple...

YOU ARE HUMAN!

:-)