The Waiting Room | Tushar Sen

Strophe

The sight of you today tickled me                  to think
If the spring is looking for me still, ego’s
Little tussle delayed                my recoil to you, and
You failed       to secern broken          from shattered,
When the gravity        between us      collapsed,
Like wrong ends of a magnet             we repelled.
Countless dawns I had turned to dusks          hearing
Your lies bubble up                as blisters upon my heart,
My share of life I’ve expend              in your alley,
It’s not me, only my regard                for these –
Undying breaths. Passion no longer flows that did
With your name          in my veins, THORNS you left me
I couldn’t trade florists around; valued them            none.

Antistrophe

THORNS will find you          when flowers know your worth,
Bee seeks nectar         and bud looks to bloom,
Bees flee the fields                 and flowers wilt and fall.
If not on earth, in the skies we shall unite,
The aching hollowness echoes            of my guilt;
Your debt I wear         below my darkened eyes
Keeps me from slumber, my soul       never came
With me          from those alleys        I left behind,
Gray shadows             once was me, in my darkness wanes.
Lonely             among kin, my blistered heart            weeps,
I’ll be damned if I snub          my ego            today,
The silk of my judgment               entwines          once again.

Tushar is a writer, poet, author, and screenwriter based out of India. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Boolean Digital Studio LLP. 

He has authored a book titled Pandora’s Box, available on Amazon (bit.ly/TusharSen), it’s a collection of short stories. One of the stories in the book was written and produced by him as a short film titled Zulfi. The film can be watched here: bit.ly/ZulfiFilm, the film is now making rounds in film festivals and it has already won 17 laurels, his second script titled Jasaarat (based on another story from his book) is now in the pre-production stage and has already won 2 laurels at international screenplay competitions. Details about his films and the awards are on his IMDB profile: imdb.me/tusharsen