i knew you were snippets of a sad song
composed of haunted memories
that broke me into verses
when the melodies are heard from a far away land
plundered and riddled with torn dreams and emptied hopes
i knew you were death offered in disguised sweetness
of a love professed to lovelorn hearts like bitter syrups
sipped in breathless quantities from rusted teaspoons
i knew you were a battle field of long forgotten soldiers
who fought tirelessly with heavy hearts and broken spirits
not for the lost battle but for the fear of oblivion.
i knew you were a den of hungry lions
feeding on their offsprings
not for survival but for the purpose of their own extinction
into depths of helpless darkness
where they find themselves in shambles snippets and shrapnel of abstraction
i knew you were a contraption of explosives glueing lives with bang bang sounds
creating trauma by rebuilding homes in a place full of strangers with fates so different but look so much alike
