poetry

Hide and Seek

I was happy yesterday.
But today, suddenly,
everything seems grey.

I guess my depression wants
to play hide and seek, again.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Level

Level.
A word which
is used by humans,
to measure, things.

Now let me
show y’all,
what humans
use it for.

Standard.
Status.
Money.

What it should
be used for.

Hypocrisy.
Poverty.
Inhumanity.

And, never
for a person’s
mundanity.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Excuses

I need some air.
I need some space.
I need to go.

Though the
sentences are different.
But they all mean the same.
They’re just.

Excuses to leave.
Excuses to run away.
Excuses to break a heart.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Pain and Love

Pain and love.
What’s the link
between these
two words?

For me,
They’re both
The same.

For me,
Pain, have
Become a
Metaphor
Of love.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Privileged

He took the first
Bite of his food,
And threw it away
Exclaiming how
tasteless it was.

A rag picker, later,
picked it up and ate it.
How satiated,
he looked,
while eating,
like it was
the tastiest food
he ever had.

Not everyone is
as privileged
as you are.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Gentleman

When you shave that beard,
it doesn’t lessen your masculinity.
Beard or not, masculinity lies
in the way you treat others.

If you think belittling others,
Makes you more masculine,
Then, my friend, you’re wrong.

‘Cause my parents have
taught me that being a
gentleman is the most
Masculine feature a
man can ever have.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Halloween

We wear masks
to hide our faces
In Halloween.

But the truth is,
Those masks
of foul creatures
Doesn’t hide
our faces, but,
Unveils the
real ones.

-Halloween.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Breeze.

Like a gentle breeze.
You came into my life.
When you touched me.
I felt, that sense of peace.

Then you left, and,
I stood there, and,
My heart ached.

But, the mistake was mine.
For I should’ve known.

It’s not in the
nature of breeze,
To stay at one place,
It always flees.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Drowning.

It fills my heart with joy,
When I see my friends,
Succeeding in life.
It fills my heart with pride,
When I see my friends,
Winning in life.
But, it would be a lie,
That I feel joyous, all the time,
For, the truth is, I don’t.
I don’t lie, for I can’t,
I’m not happy, not because,
I see people living their dreams,
But, because, I see, myself,
Still standing, at the same place,
where I stood, a year ago,
and have moved a step, ahead.
And It’s filling my heart with glum,
But all I do is,
try to wipe the sadness away,
By drowning my night,
in a bottle of rum.

-Tired.

-Abhishek Gupta.

Dil ka aalam.

Dil ka aalam kuch aisa hai.
Gham ki sagar me dooba hai.
Cheekh bhi na aane deta labon par.

Zindagi bezubaan si ho gayi hai.
Dil ka aalam kuch aisa hai.
Ragon me lahoo ki jagah
Ab zeher hi baste hai.

Kise karun bayan Haal-e-Dil?
Ajkal toh apne hi hume
saanp bankar daste hai.

Dil ka aalam kuch aisa hai.
Ke kuch aapke jaisa, aur,
Kuch humare jaisa hai.
Dil ka aalam kuch aisa hai.

-Abhishek Gupta.