all the demons & angels keep shouting at me

and all the demonsand angelskeep shouting at me -i'm clingingto the edge of sanity,so tell me if the fall from gracewill be painless? nothing in hellscares meand no place in heavenentices meand existence doesn'ttempt me;society is tryingto resuscitate me whilstcrushing my insides. and all theseangels and demonsseem to leave meat the mercyof my own conscience;i …

if i die young

if i die young,i want to be buriedknowing my heart feltall it couldand my dreamswere unleashed fromthe realms of myimagination;if i die youngi don't wantmy unspoken wordsto be regretsor have diednot sayingi love youto the oneswhom my heartbelongs to. if i die young,i want to haveexperienced liferather than havecoexisted with it;i want to havebeen happy …

it’s not until you

it's like my soul is in a constant state of hibernation and when it wakens up winter tries to make my mind his realm; guests come along and place bouquets of hope, florals of ambition and make space for blossoms of love and care to flourish. then autumn fancies playing his hand and starves the …

boys can be hurt too

oh didn't they tell you that boys can be minding their own damn business and still be targeted and have their life torn apart? the boys have it easy - no glass ceilings or power struggles with patriarchy or being labelled as the weaker gender. but don't they tell you, that's what makes it even …

IT’S NOT YOUR BODY

i live in a world where supposedly having my hemline touch the knee or lower is supposed to protect me; i'm supposed to stay in bed at 2AM not because it's good to maintain a good sleeping pattern but to roam the streets and stargaze aren't deemed to be safe for the girls. i shouldn't …

don’t get close to anyone

don't get close to anyone my thoughts whisper to me; stay guarded my mind warns and my heart proceeds to put up barriers warding off the devil that appears today in the form of attachment. i'm just too tired, too goddamn tired of caring more than them and draining my soul dry for someone whose …

you did the same to me

you chose to kill your family ties with the drinking. you swapped the bedtime stories for late night score settlings and exchanged family chatter at the dinner table for radio silence; you raised a fist in your family home and discarded your flesh and blood - the ones you vowed to love, cherish and protect …

you were the one

i was scared to love again; scared to be loved and to be in love until i met You. You made it so easy that before i knew it my heart was all yours and that thought didn't intimidate me - not one little bit. and i guess that's when i Knew that you were …

he said i was perfect

he said i was perfect yet let his eyes wander to girls with more curves and prettier faces and educate me on what sexy is and told me not to worry - god has given us science, and there's nothing surgery can't fix; of course - that's if you're unhappy darling, with your body, he'd …

hostage

i've been treading the path i've been taking at gunpoint but it's only now that i realise it's you that's been holding me hostage all this time. i would have traded my smile for yours given up sleep wasted away idle hours in your company obsessed over anything and everything with you sacrificed the rewards …