I sleep with my eyes open,
Making sure no one’s watching when I cry,
When the light in the corridor turns on, I get the tears to dry,
Mom says to others, she’s just a bit shy,
I can’t trust anyone with secrets like mine,
Otherwise they’d end up on my doorstep with rocks to pelt me,
Words to break me,
Hands to tear me,
I can’t see the sky anymore,
All I see is a wall,
Keeping me confined among the demons,
Stars acting as eyes, quietly watching me sin and suffer,
It breaks my heart,
Watching friends walk away one after the other,
Watching my enemies prosper while I fail,
It breaks me from inside,
Looking at myself in the mirror, what I had done to myself,
With my own bare palms,
All because of some trashy lover,
I was always tried to be nice to them,
All I asked for in return was love,
But they never gave that,
They act like I’m dead when I’m alive,
When I’ll be dead, they’ll be rushing to my grave to apologize,
Knowing that I won’t hear it then,
I hear the clock tick past each second of my life,
Each dreadful second bearing different heart breaks,
Different failures,
Different expectations that they never fulfilled,
I never felt inclined to the path that was right,
I lost my kith and kin, lost my sight,
Hating it when I felt the sky get bright,
After I found refuge in my tears at night,
I sleep with my eyes open,
Making sure no one’s watching when I cry,
When the light in the corridor turns on, I get the tears to dry,
Mom says to others, she’s just a bit shy,
@Hamza Arshad
This is such an emotional and heart-breaking poem, it’s like your heart is crying and remembering all the phases it endured when in love, recalling how it finally came to its breaking point. The sun is setting on one part of this person’s world as it rises in another. This poem was truly a pleasure to read!
Wow