Today I saw a man dying.
After he was gone,
I saw him and his eyes.
They were looking at me,
open wide.
My eyes, too, are open.
But I’m dead inside.
That’s the difference.
He’s actually dead, and,
I’m barely alive.
-Abhishek Gupta.
I am here.
Right here.
Where I was.
Standing still.
Waiting for you.
To look back once.
But you won’t.
You always,
used to say,
life goes on.
But mine,
It stopped.
I am here.
Right here.
-Abhishek Gupta.
Don’t you dare, let anyone,
take that smile away from you.
No matter how broke you are.
No matter how lonely you feel.
No matter how gloomy life becomes.
Don’t lose that smile.
Don’t you dare, lose it.
When the darkness will consume,
you, your life and your heart.
When your mind will be foreshadowed
by thoughts sick and grim.
That smile, will act as your
Knight in the shining armour.
Because, when nothing in
your life will make sense,
and you’ll feel there’s no
point staying here, in this
world filled with humans
whose hearts are so
corrupt that even the devil
would think twice before
making a deal with them.
Your smile, it will remind,
you and the people around,
that one should never give up,
because of the people around,
because they don’t even matter.
What matters, in the end,
is you, and your happiness.
Don’t you dare, let anyone,
take that smile away from you.
Smile, even in your darkest times.
Because your smile might give,
someone else the strength to fight.
-Abhishek Gupta.
एक खाली खुली किताब सी ही है मेरी ज़िन्दगी।
लोग आते है, और पन्नों पर अपना नाम लिख,
फिर कहीं दूर, मुझे तन्हा छोड़, चले जाते है।
It’s been awhile now,
That you’ve been gone.
I sleep on the same bed
on which we used to, together.
It’s the same bed, but,
I don’t know why it feels
just a little bit bigger now.
I still water the plants, which grew
from the seeds, that you had sown.
It’s been awhile now,
That you’ve been gone.
-Abhishek Gupta.
You are AMAZING. You’re different from the rest of the people out there, which makes them jealous. So don’t let their harsh words define you. Not others, but your actions defines you. ALWAYS remember this.
BE WHO YOU ARE.
-Abhishek Gupta.
No strings attached.
A phrase, I have followed my whole life.
I remember, how I once helped my best friend,
Back in the school days, by covering up
for him, saying that it was my mistake,
that the window’s glass got broken.
Well, I paid a price for it then.
I got suspended for a day.
But I did it with no strings attached.
I did it to save my friend, right?
I also remember, how I helped a teacher once,
In my college, when the a group of
students complained against her
to the principal, and it was a false complaint.
So, I stood by her side, and I chose to embrace
the enemity of my own classmates.
I did that, and I was okay with it,
because I have always followed
the path of righteousness.
There are innumerable incidents like these.
Where I did things, with no strings attached.
But is it the Truth?
Here’s the another side of this story.
I remember, how my best friend,
For whom, I was always there, left me alone,
When I was at my lowest and needed him the most.
The same person, whose mistakes I used to cover.
The same person, whom I trusted the most.
I also remember, how the same teacher,
For whom I stood against my own classmates,
Didn’t stood my by side,
when I in a state of depression.
All I asked her was to give me
some more time, to recover from it.
All I wanted was to see my parents,
but she didn’t grant me the leave.
She didn’t care about my mental health.
We all think that we do things selflessly.
Which we do, to be honest.
But somewhere, inside,
we do expect from these people.
And here’s the thing, it’s okay, to expect.
We’re humans and we do expect from
the people whom we think we’re close to.
We might say that there are no strings attached.
But the truth is, we’ll always expect a li’l from them.
-Abhishek Gupta.
I, sometimes, wonder.
If you still, see my photos,
regretting, what you did to me.
But then I realize,
I was a mere toy,
for you, with whom,
you played and
moved on to
another one.
// t o y //
-Abhishek Gupta.
I still wish no ill for you.
I pray, everyday,
it never happens to you,
what you did to me.
-Abhishek Gupta.
To,
The person whom I once loved.
I have nothing but hatred in my heart, for you, but underneath this charade of hatred, there’s still some love left, for you, and it always will.
With love,
Abhishek Gupta.