Saturday, October 6, 2012

Protected

I cannot talk anymore,
I just hear people chatter,
So I chatter in the noise.

I float across 
White cement,
Water pipes,
Grey cubicles,
Glass windows,
Central air conditioning,
RFID cards,
6 latte's,
White paper cups,
Keyboards,
Clicks,
White hair,
Bitten chapped lips
Dark circles,
Dairy milks, 
Black pigment liners,
and Tyrells,
Knowing how alone can a person be.

I hear them talk,
So I talk,
About black plugs,
And good design.

I cannot talk anymore,
So I listen to Blackfield and Lacuna Coil,
And soak into Sigur Ros,
And write down lines,
From Into the Wild.

Others tried to define my identity,
I tried defining it too,
But while defining others identity,
I lost mine way too soon.

I cannot talk anymore,
So I scribble scrawly lines,
To know that I have my identity,
Protected,
In cream papers of my notebooks,
That will get lost in time.

I don't want to be protected like my lines.

1 comment:

Anindya 'Suman' Kundu said...

Quite a coincidece. Sleepless... Just opened your blog and reading this poem... and the song Windows Media Player randomly selects is 'Blow up the outside world' by Sondgarden... The lyrical theme was so similar I felt...

"Nothing seem to kill me
No matter how hard I try
Nothing is closing my eyes
Nothing can beat me down
For your pain or delight

Nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall
Nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up
Though not invincible I know"