BOOKS OF LIFE

Mehar kapoor — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:18:02 +0000

She has a library in her heart,

And ink runs through her veins,

She’ll write you into her story

With the typewriter in her brain.

Her library’s getting crowded,

With all the stories she has penned

Of the people who flipped through her pages;

But closed the book before the end..

And there’s one pushed to the very back

Sitting there collecting dust,

With the title in her finest handwriting,

‘The ones who lost my trust’.

There are books she’s scared to open,

And books she doesn’t close,

Stories of every person she’s met

Stretched out in endless rows..

Some people have only a sentence,

Others once held a main part

Thousands of inky footprints;

That they’ve left across her heart…

You might wonder why she does this

Why write about people she once knew,

But she hopes one day she means enough,

For someone to write about her too…

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PEOPLE ARE NOT POETRY

Mehar kapoor — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:34:36 +0000

You can write for hours and hours,
About all the things you wish to be,
But the truth of the matter is simple
People are not poetry…

And i know you wish you weren’t awkward,
That sweet words could roll right off your tongue,
But time is just too less to worry,
How each single sentence is strung..

It’s okay to be rough around the edges,
To be bruised up and broken and scarred
But it’s not okay for people to tell you;
To change because of who you are.
Your hair doesn’t always sit neatly,
The way a poem does in lines,
And sometimes you feel like a word
That nobody has ever learnt to define…

You might not be a star that lights darkness
Or a bird that can teach us to soar,
But it’s okay, because you’re far too complex,
To be crammed into a metaphor..
It’s okay to not know what you’re doing,
Since your feelings don’t all have to rhyme,
Though a poem once complete is eternal
You have the freedom, to change over time.
You’re much more than can ever be written,
There’s not title to say, “This Is Me”
You can’t be trapped in the lines of a notebook,
Because, people are not poetry…..

*~Mehar Kapoor*

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BOOKS OF LIFE

PEOPLE ARE NOT POETRY