Darkness

Darkness lurks in the shadows,
The shadows where memories were alive,
Prisoning me into them,
Shattering my dream.

It is the past that pulls me back,
Makes me string along with you,
It is the moments I’ve spent,
Those are also the moments I despise the most.

Darkness jerks my dreams and aspirations away,
I murk on the mundane life,
As it twerks and throttles on my mind,
Nothing can I do but focus on my grind.

You’ve been an important person,
But heartbreaks, teach you, you weren’t that important,
Heartbreak thought me, love isn’t real,
But what’s real is pain, agony and frustration.

While I look up at the sky, on top of the mountain,
Achieving and becoming what I wanted, I wonder whether you’re there on the corner, to hold my hand and walk with me.

I know that ain’t happening,
I know, you’re the darkness, your memories were the darkness, your love was the darkness, that kept holding me, pulling me back, to you,
You’re the monster that latches into me, and shakes my foundation.

I don’t give a damn,
I don’t want you,
Go to hell,
But, where will you go, I live in the same hell day in and out.

I live in the same hell, when the darkness of past, lurks and jerks over me,
Splatters and shatters my life away,
Even if I am on top of the mountain, achieved and satisfied in life,
I want to go back to reality.

Reality where your pain, made me a man,
Your heartbreak, your not loving me,
Filled me, and gave me clarity,
And I become what I wanted to.

People say, hate is a negative force,
I say, you can turn it into positive one.

© Ashraf Shaikh

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