Continuing with the melancholic undertones…
Self
Tearing myself,
to be selfless.
To never be the drop,
rolling down one’s eye.
Should I be myself, or
erase my self?
To become an empty vase,
dropped from hands
that didn’t try.
What is it, to be selfless?
Isn’t it still a self,
hiding from people
and desiring to fly?
Or is to gulp anxiety
while your ears touch
a conceding heart and
hold its cry.
Why a self, if I have a heart?
I’d rather be the clouds,
that disappear, float and fly
be gloomy or sunny the sky.
-Divya Ranjan, 16th July 2022.