Earthquake

Fear of the unknown

Looms above me

Dark times are imminent

It warns, silently

I feel its footsteps pound

A discordant march breaking the grounds.

Shake it off, they curtly say

I try my best, but it stays

The earth swiftly shudders from beneath

Torn bodies are strewn ahead rapidly!

I grab what I could call mine

IDs, to my broken mind

Nothing’s left for you here

Nothing’s left of you here

Had I really seen it come by?

Were there any signs I’d denied?

When your world is shaken, you’d believe

There was a lot you could’ve done, in grief

But, who am I to take a call?

We are all petty mortals, after all. 

Void voices

I wish you were on my speed dial

Only a phone call away

I wish I could hear your voice

And hug your tall frame.

I wish I could bother you

With the silliest of complaints

I wish I could turn to you

And be assured I was safe

I wish I remembered you often

Not just when I'm in pain

I wish your memories stayed

And not fade off with each day

I wish you would coarsely tell me

I'm here - things will change!

Daddy, I wish you were somewhere - alive

So I could stop posting poems and fly.

Pick me

If when at my worst, 
I still treat you like my best - 
Pick me, from the rest.