did you forget
to dump the bad milk
down the drain?
no matter how much
you wanted to drink it
once it’s gone bad
there’s no going back.
t.l.
keeping it in the fridge won’t help
Grinding teeth
our love was like
grinding teeth
we didn’t even know
we were doing it
there’s no sign at first
no headache, no bleeding
no facial pain
everything seemed fine..
and then, we realized
the closer we get
the more we tear down
one another.
t.l.
Romantic
does romantic
equal melancholic
can’t we be in love
without being in pain
moon lit night
i might be going insane
was it fog or was it rain
the lane lines are getting blurrier
am i going back or forward
the train has left the station
but why am i still holding the ticket?
t.l.
2:30am poem
leave
please don’t leave
because if that thought
had crossed your mind
maybe just once, or twice,
I’m already gone.
t.l.
I will leave first so noone can walk out the door.
call my name
i won’t cross oceans
to beg for your love
i won’t cancel the fun
so you’d stop sulking
i won’t listen
to your nagging
i won’t dive head first
into your pool of shame
i won’t question myself
or let you do the same
i won’t put my happiness second
so you can call her name
instead of mine.
t.l.
Tears
i won’t sell my tears
to the ones who will
bathe in them
and then ask for a smile.
t.l.
‘why don’t you smile more?’
Missing
do I miss you
or do I miss missing someone?
t.l.
dark
when we stayed in the dark
for too long, we thought
that’s how it’s supposed to be
until we stepped out in the light again.
our eyes squinted
the birds were chirping
we could see the clouds smiling
back at us
is it our new normal?
to be out in the open
to know that we can get used to darkness
doesn’t mean we have to live in it forever.
t.l.
ash
can I light a fag
and watch it burn
like how you told me
I was beautiful
then left me
swaying in my own ash.
t.l.
unexpected
when I saw your face
at the most unexpected place
that’s when it hurts the most.
t.l.
Tsunami of Words 