Lakshita Sehgal

an irony

What an irony it isTo be a roseadored by the crowdAnd yet cry for the oneWho walks past youAs if you’re js a thornHe calls the stars in my eyes ordinaryAnd what even is beauty?If the one I crave forIs blind to itBut how do I bend someone’s eyesTo see something they refuse toBut I’ve […]

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hope

Hope visits like a debt collector,I can’t refuse to payBut hearts are built w doors not rootsAnd my fav lie is “ I will stay”As bad as I want to cry it outMy heart js somehow forgot to shoutI wish the sky borrows my painAnd lets it fall as the evening rainchew my screamsBefore they’d

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my heart trembled when i heard the news words even my heart had to refuse that mothers scream swallowed by nights when the uniform arrives at the door soaked in grief ever more than before the world moves on with another goodbye but those families left to forever cry who reach on borders without a

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