Battle Scars

Battle Scars

Blood seeping through the openings, 

With the skin breached by the knives of treachery and dishonesty, 

The veins gashed for the soul to break free, 

Cracking the very soul which had been the definition of strength. 

Friendships and relationships were sacred for me, 

Pledging loyalty to them irrespective of who they are,

Who had a whiff of danger that was sure to devastate us,

Blinded by the love and loyalty I had for them. 

With life being unpredictable,

Friends turning against you,

Planning and plotting against you, 

Only to bring you down. 

The ones I loved are now the ones who hate me, 

With me being the most vulnerable around her, 

Making her one of the conspirator, 

Breaking my soul into a million fragments. 

The strength within me loosening up, 

Giving them a look at the chunk in my armour, 

She stood there looking at me with love in her eyes, 

Only to stab me in the back. 

With eyes wide open, 

In utter dismay at the friends that I lived for, 

The girl that meant my life breaking me for them, 

Turning out to be the first one to stab me in the back. 

While putting my sieved body in the grave, 

My friends turn up with their blood soaked hands, 

To bid me farewell one more time,

Throwing the dirt with spit on my body. 

With the rusting souls entrapped in their bodies, 

Only to see them smiling at my plight, 

Bidding each other farewell, 

From a man the world feared only remained a cadaver with a million cuts.      

Say My Name

Say My Name

With the window cracked, 

And the dust entering the room, 

The files and the pages twirling around the room, 

Just when the I needed everyone the most, all I had was dust. 

Sacrifice was all I did, 

From the moment I saw you, 

The position where I was, 

Had handed me the world on a silver platter. 

But I had to leave it for you, 

Because you needed a self made person to believe, 

With each and every step to the top, 

Making me pant for my breath. 

I guess this is how life is, 

On the other side, 

Where success is everything and how it defines a person, 

Money is the new way to describe people. 

Slowly and slowly I lost who I was, 

From the nice sweet hearted soul you once met, 

To an egoistic sick arrogant ghost of a man that you fear, 

You had trusted me to be there to protect you. 

You needed me to hold you, 

And protect you whenever you needed, 

Now here I am enshrined by the dark, 

Asking you to save me. 

With your love surrounding me, 

And looking at me with your almond eyes, 

The broken soul in me asking you to protect me from who I have become, 

Because without you I would have nothing at all.  

The tsunami of emotions hitting the shores of my mind, 

With the flashbacks of the person I once was, 

Fighting the man who I am today, 

I see you laying besides me, 

Saying my name.  

Immortal

Immortal

While the world mourns, 

About a life that you had led for them, 

The ground beneath me now infested with cracks, 

The foundation that we had laid now weakening. 

We were young when we first met, 

The charm had a certain allure to it, 

Like an addict I knew I would be incomplete without you, 

Before you I had no where to go to. 

You not only gave my soul a destination, 

The vagabond within me was now at peace, 

With happiness being alien to me, 

You had finally found the path that would lead me there. 

With you now being the centre of my world, 

I had devoted my life to you, 

Walking with you on the path of roses, 

To the end of the road. 

With the pressure of the public eye, 

To the day you got shot, 

I had tried to showcase grit, 

When all I was a broken soul fearing for you. 

And as the life had taken a stride towards normalcy, 

You had that look in the eye, 

As the first day I saw you, 

With you losing a battle untold. 

I saw you lose control of yourself, 

The emotional breakdown, 

To the angst you had, 

The lost look that you would have. 

With the years you had to bear through, 

Trying to remember everything, 

Suffering from Alzheimer's was never easy, 

Slowly I had lost you forever. 

And today, 

After 8 years of separation, 

We meet again, 

To script a new chapter to our immortal love story.    

That's The Truth

That's The Truth

While the room was full of people, 
It still felt empty, 
With us pinned against each other, 
Who in his right mind would have thought that we would end this way. 

Amidst the arguments and accusation, 
I could see you from the corner of my eye, 
With that spark lost in the sands of time, 
Pushing me to forget about us. 

The love that had etched us till forever, 
Has now vanished from our lives, 
With adultery and deceit becoming the reality of our love,
You were my drug and I was your wine. 

Then the façade was over, 
With each passing second suffocating the love out of us, 
That fateful night when you had slapped my face with the worst nightmare, 
A paper changing our fate forever. 

I tried hard enough to be with you, 
Stopping you from ruining the best thing that ever happened to me, 
Had become my priority, 
With day after day and night after night, I had almost showered you with love. 

 But almost is never enough, 
When on that snowy night, 
You had decided to leave me alone, 
Making me a ghost of the house made up of our memories. 

With all the lawyers juggling with their paperwork, 
All I could do was just look at you for one final time, 
Before the world as we knew it changed.  
With the present and the past colliding. 

I am caught here in between, 
Only if we could go before the storm came raging in our lives, 
Destroying our identity, 
Not realising what we have to lose. 

No matter what the verdict is, 
At the ends we are the only ones who are going to lose, 
With the love gone, 
All I want to say is "Baby, Don't go." 
And that's the truth.