Sonal's Poems

In this space, I write not to explain life, but to explore it. Pause with me, linger between the lines, and perhaps you’ll discover a piece of your own story here too. 🙂

Tag: Longing

  • You keep coming back to me…!

    No matter how many years have passed

    Or how many more will come

    Silently without any reason to be

    Your thought comes back to me…

    No matter how many faces since

    Or how many more I’ll see

    Thoughtlessly without any plea

    Your face comes back to me…

    No matter how many conversations since

    Wonder how many more I’ll hear

    Creepily in my nothingness

    Your words come back to me…

    No matter how many more songs

    Don’t know how many more melodies

    Catching me of guard sometimes

    Your voice comes back to me…

    No matter how many approvals I’ve seen

    Maybe there’ll be more applause 

    But in all those moments of glee

    Your smile comes back to me… 

    No matter how many tears I’ve shed

    Many more heartbreaks I might see

    In each of those sighs and cries

    Your love comes back to me… 

    No matter how many lines I’ve said

    Many more might flow as sea

    Rhythmically, magically

    Your rhyme I’ll sing till eternity…

  • Orphan, this one! :(

    1

    All alone on this path as I tread

    Can’t remember when last I was fed

    No care, no love, no one who said

    “Come here my child, let me put you to bed”

    Fending for myself, alone on the streets

    No fuss, no tantrum, no one dancing on my beats

    No pampering, no gifts, no toys or treats

    With open arms, no one who meets

    Sobbing tears if I ever feel weak

    Where do I go, which shelter to seek

    Who is there to kiss my cheek

    To say, “My dear, you’re truly unique!”

    I sometimes feel very scared

    As I live on streets exposed and bare

    Is there not even one here or there?

    The warmth of an abode with me who can share

    Whom to complain if I ever want to

    How I wish for a door to go through 

    To live a life, totally different and new

    To have all the things which currently are few

    Not easy it is to live all alone

    Famished always, body like a bone

    Callously ignored & on the streets thrown

    Before being a child, feeling all grown

    Why this bias, getting punished for what?

    Why have I been sent – is it only to rot?

    Did YOU send me here and just forgot?

    To fend for myself I’ve all alone fought!

    I have some dreams, even I want to live

    I am sure for me, YOU have something to give

    If I was ever wrong, now please forgive 

    Small favours only, nothing that I need is too big

    A family to love, someone to care

    Someone who’ll lovingly stroke my hair

    And as I tread out, this time to learn 

    Someone – who’ll wait for even my return!