Heart Break

a poem by Rishab Shanker

Joy, ecstacy and happiness
that’s what you feel when it all begins
no end in near sight
don’t care if its wrong or right
dreaming through the day
and awake through the night
build your life in circles concentric
while the whole world labels you eccentric
nobody else understands you or knows
coz you are in love and the story goes

3 years and 6 months live your life for someone else
wishfully thinking and blissfully ignorant

nothing lasts forever, everything fades away
or so a million and more people say
but I am too involved to listen to you
coz I’m in way too deep and you are too far away
that cannot be true, they are just jealous
that’s why these lies they all tell us
someday my friends will see
that in love is the way to be

3 years and 6 months live your life for someone else
wishfully thinking and blissfully ignorant

I gave up my choices for you
while you secretly made yours
I turned my face from the truth
and planned for all the future years
I had my chance to leave but I didn’t go
coz you were on my mind, heart and soul
chance knocked again but this time on your door
you packed your bags and left my heart with a gaping hole
shut my mind to all that was so true
enclosed in my own island of love
but the middle of the raging sea is where you left me now

3 years and 6 months I lived my life for you
but now I guess I’ll just have to live without you

You are happy thinking you’ve left me shattered
but little do you know only now my life has started
the initial hatred and self quarantine
I will never fall again, never want anybody to be mine
nothing happens the way you want it to
you have to go through somethings just to get through broken heart
and drowning in my own tears
trying to surround me with my own fears
its time to wake up and break those walls
coz he who walks stooped always falls
stand tall and face my life, so what if you ain’t with me
I am myself again and
everything else I wanted to be

3 years and 6 months I lived my life for you
now its time for me to go ahead
if anybody lost anything in the bargain, it wasn’t me it was you

3 years and 6 months are over now
seriously thinking and no more ignorant… just blissful!!