Close your eyes and imagine
Somewhere in Vancouver
The Street lights flickering awake
Outside a window and
a Sakura blossom falling
before it's time
on the streets of Tokyo
Can you see it?
Clocks are breaking all over India
And time is lying on the floor,
split open like a dissected flower
Two teenagers holding their scalpels
In the wrong hand so they could
Hold each other in the right
Hiding a rainbow under their table
While the professor talks about
how love is nothing but a serotonin high
I wonder what he thinks about
when he lays down alone at night
To look at his wife's photograph
How does he explain the tears?
The dead sea overflowing or
the kitchen sink left on
for five minutes too long
Love is a language lost in translation
A candle burning at both ends
I know that I'm getting even harder to like, your name is a panic room
i hide down there when love comes knocking, I don't answer and it burns down the whole goddamned house
if it's not the fire then it's the sun,
look it's finally morning in Paris
How do i know that?
Because the knocking has started again
How can you make something stay
Ask it to disappear , Like this poem
It's all over the couch, Split milk calling for attention
Things that don't end well eventually become invisible
Like this poem here
[ and us ]
You're a doctor now
Tell me, is the past a curable a disease,
What do you cut first
the brain or the heart
Tell me which one is easier
Listen, this poem has amnesia
Before it loses its memory again
I have to tell you something
There was a particular moment in that classroom where
i would rather have had you
than poetry,
If you ever read this
I want you to know
That moment has passed.
— Swati Barik, The fine art of lying.
// Instagram: @barelyswati
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Serendipity | Poetry + Prose
Random*updates on Monday, Wednesday and Friday!* Serendipity (n.) Finding something good without looking for it. [ a collection of poetry, prose and everything in between that have touched my heart. ]
