Unopened Gift
Slow down your dance before the song is over
Uneven does the paths become
making life an edgy experience
smoky essence of scent and burns
of cologne and wet-dried grass
with disrupted emotions!
Slow down your dance
before the song is over
thoughts in an endless swirl
heart beating in an unrhythmic twirl!
Listen to the warnings
Don't forget to hear the song being sung
in haste, miss the tune
with a hundred things making way into your head,
Life will only become an unopened gift, just thrown away!
With missed beats and rhythm of the music
riddled and scrabbled one another
missed words, steps, conviction,
communication and opportunity to be for each other
becomes merely a symphony of broken pieces of
shattered empty life!
©2019 Shweta
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