BROKEN WINGS

BROKEN WINGS

Copyright © SHRAVANI MUKHERJEE

However hard I try

Just cannot understand why

Honest! This is no lie

But I’m just not able to fly

Been always the simple and regular type

The burden of expectations heaped on me

By you and people from time to time

Maybe….thats the reason why

 I’m just not able to fly

One day!! I’ll grow my wings, yeah mine!!

And not be just a rebel who voices but sighs

That day I’ll reach my goal in the heights

But till then, I just can’t fly….!

WILL TO LIVE AGAINST DEATH

WILL TO LIVE AGAINST DEATH

Copyright © SHRAVANI MUKHERJEE

Am I the human I used to be?

Why am I still here?

I keep writhing in this pain

Yet, why am I breathing the air?

I am crying here all broken and hurt

Yet I am not dead (….just like I feared!)

Always knew I had a will power too strong

That would shield my life so dear

My strength and will to live over-powering my body’s wish

Voices are loud, but it is my desperation

That so clearly I can right now hear

And I wonder why I still wish to live!?

That’s when my open eyes shed the one last tear