WHAT LAY BENEATH.


At first they thought it was all fun and games. They paid no heed to the advice their parents millions of times gave. In their minds, they had to try it out. They had find out what lay beneath. They wanted to know what little creatures crawled behind those old crumbling walls of that house at HILLPOINT, the house their grand parents told them is haunted.


They wanted to know what demon slept their. They wanted to know what monsters bellowed all night- but most of all, they wanted to prove the legend. Curiosity killed the cat.


So on the night of December 31st, 1998, the threesome__ one girl, two boys all not older than 14__ climbed up the winding hill to the old rotting house that stared them back menacing, evil- diabolical. It was like it wanted to quench a thirst for blood. And there coming, down the winding road, where three ignorant little kids. Fools.


When they approached the house, 10 feet maybe, an owl hooted, the harbinger of death. A warning none of the three took. They had to explore, they had to find out. It was like the house had a magical magnet pull that reached out to their souls, it pulled them, 5 feet now.


For a hill, it was too silent, no wind, and no creatures in the grass sang their evening songs. It was 6PM. It was like the creatures knew the house reeked of death, so they kept away. Even the wind. The atmosphere was dry_barren.


The girl finally broke the silence,
"Let's go home guys!" She nudged the boys, her voice trembling. But they heard nothing, they were hypnotised. They didn't have control over themselves. The house smiled. It's windows so dark, no sign of life inside. No sign of anything good. They still didn't care.


She spoke up again, this time taking a step backwards, holding the teddy bear she always carried with her even tighter, "Come on guys, let's go back!" She almost screamed and cried. She stamped her feet on the ground. They didn't care. They had to get it and maybe greet the devil that lived in that old ragged house.


"Go home Suzy." One of the boys replied and continued "adventures aren't for the weak at heart."


He didn't even bother to look back as he said this. His gaze was only on the house, his and the other boy's mouths feel agape, as if they were awe struck. There eyes devilishly black, no sense of humanity left in them. None at all. They now belonged to the house. Their souls doomed to be trapped in it forever.


One step close to the door. The taller of the boys opened it. It let out a long menacing and satanic Creek, as if it were laughing at them. For being foolish preferably.


Once opened, it let out a strong gush of air that sucked the boys in. They screamed! But it was too late.


And while Suzy stood their crying, weeping and sobbing, at the window, she saw two glows, red in color. The monster stared at her. The demon lusted for her. She felt the pull and towards the house she went, like a zombie. Doomed to die. At the hands of whatever lay beneath.


They got their answers, but they didn't live long enough to evaluate them.

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Guilty Conscience


It haunts you about the past
About the happiness that didn't even last
About the happiness that was obtained
Through methods wrong and aghast

The deed is done
But this feeling will never end,
At the back of your mind
It will ever fend

Like stays on the early morning grass
A drop of dew
it'll stay
And that's guilty conscious for you

#poetry
#rk
#review

SOLITARY TRIBUTES:

Dear diary ; Be my secret keeper
Trust me you will not be a boring partner
My Soul is about to fade away
But still something's thwarting my way

Dear diary; Be my soaked pillow
carved emotions can't evaporate my sorrow..
Tears on my pillow, will they ever cease?
The more I think about it the more they increase

Dear diary; Be my endurance of existence
So you can endow my emotional affluence
Acquaint your mastery of resilience to me
So I can survive in this atrocious realm

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#poetry

-Nothingness

My life is in a ocean of nothingness,
The waves of my reality,
Keeps changing,
The wind of my sanity,
Keeps flowing,
I want a sun of clarity.

This nothingness,
Massless,
Without any reason,
Keeps flowing within me,
As i see all my life flowing infront of me,
I realize that only nothingness was there,
inside me,
Which i filled with everything,
But
Nothing.

~asthir

#poetry #asthir #review

(Hello world,)

:

Ahh..life,

Well its not fair that I know,

What the hell am i supposed to do?

Shit just keep coming to me out of the blue,

I have feelings but few,

There's this deep down feeling to pursue,

Why is it so alone here?

They promised me friends,

They promised me angels,

They promised people of different blends,

But there are only betrayals,

They said i will find true love,

But all i see here is desperation.

Inside me,

I want to hug someone tight,

I want to kiss her forehead,

Where is my light?

All promises all dreams are now fading away,

Leaving me here ,

In the darkness of my insecurities.

But no..

They promised.

#poetry#poetry #asthir#asthir #review

If I were you

I wonder how life would be,
Maybe a little easier and a lot better

With gentle reminders of not being ashamed
Of what you are , what you seek, how high can be one's peak, we would live not in fragments but in peace

When dazzling lights would  lead you to dark
When beings alive would leave you dead inside

You and I, we would be to mountains,
With weeds outgrown and daffodils whistling,
"To not care, to not care, we live once "
And we would repeat  behind chasing the wind and unseen heights ,
"Oh!, to not care,to not care, we come to you, we come to you, up here , so shy, no eye may see us live, see us breath"

Then when a sweetheart butterfly would kiss our cheeks , with joy , with joy, a goodbye we would wave
to again live in fragments till to live in peace .

If I were you,
I wonder how life would be
How life would be


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Her:
He said maybe I'll fall for you,
And my name he kept calling,
I looked at that pretty boy and laughed,
He didn't know he was already falling.

Her:
She thinks I'm falling now,
But what she doesn't know at all,
Is the day when I saw her,
Her naive heart had made me enthralled !





#review
#mans
#poem

*Who Am I*

Ah! This drizzling rain
Those lovely skies
I love it all
I don't know why

These twinkling stars
That lovely moon
I wanna see them
Even in the noon

I wanna run
I wanna fly
Do everything possible
Before I die

That's what a part of me
Always says
The part I wish could
Forever stay

But in this world
That's not the case
Like every coin
I have another face

The one which is scared
The one which is shy
Wanting to be heard
Almost ready to cry

That me doesn't have
A place to go
Neither when I burn
Nor when I glow

I spend nights wondering
Which of them is right
I often put them in a battlefield
But they refuse to fight

So now I'm really confused
I don't know why
All I wanna know is
who am I ..

#review #everyone #poem

Darkness horrendous ?
Like an evil that's scandalous.
All dark and unlit,
Burning my eyes and soul.

Dark everywhere,
I see light nowhere.
Hollowness inside me,
Eating me alive.

Bring on the light,
I don't wish to see,
This empty existence,
Makes me existing , empty.

I ask for light,
All I get is the stars,
Feels like scars,
On my body's charm.

Here's darkness,
Witnessing my destruction,
Oh ! , I hope the for the
Luminescence !

If only I could shine,
With the nautical,
Glimmer.
If only darkness,
Would not be
So horrendous.


#review #nandini_thakar

Poems lay beneath my soul
patiently waiting to be unleashed
to devour every anxiety that runs through
and tie broken pieces
of my unloved heart
with lost yet enchanting phrases!

#poetry #review #grace

It was around 1:00 am,
One of my caffeine nights,
Sitting alone in my room,
Questioning my reality,

Suddenly there was a voice,
Of things sliding over each other,
As i removed my headphones and looked around
There was....
Nothing.
Then the voice came again,
But this time,
From me,
Inside me!!

As i closed my eyes i saw,
My heart looking at a box,
And old box,
And there was this written over that box,
" this belongs to her"

My heart sat in its knees,
And started collecting the things,
"A silver watch,
" she gave me, although it was loose on my hands,
Just like her,"

"Her portrait, black hairs, smiling lips, white top, and black earrings , just like her,
The day i took it , "her birthday" and the day we......
Broke up,
Parted our ways,
Told ourselves some lies we believe till today,

And a letter,
A letter...she gave me before leaving me,
Never started reading it,
Those 5 pages ....with the truth...well...."

Then suddenly a voice came towards me tearing the sound barrier,
" sleep lakshay!!!"
My mom.

#poetry #asthir #review

She left me in the mid

I know I may have did things which I shouldn't,
But what u did?!You left me in the mid which u couldn't.
Just for the sake of my damaged world please return back now,
Just tell me how would I survive without u,just tell me how?

Since u left me my life turned upside down,
And now I'm just about to drown.
Please come back & resuscitate me,
Could u show just a little mercy?
I know I was wrong therefore ready to apologise,
Why did u left me this time when u were always there with me in all my lows and highs?

Dumb things I did and now left to regret,
Sometimes I want to but those things that I can never forget.
Only you're the one,
Neither ever there was or nor will there be anyone.
None can love me and look after me in the way u did,
But still u left me in the mid.
#review #poetry #San

The moment I decided
to put myself, above all else,
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided,
To let go emotional baggage,
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided,
I was worth much more,
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided,
To prioritize myself
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided
To give unconditional love
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided
To move on
I felt I was alive

The moment I decided
To forgive with my heart,
I felt I was alive.

The moment I decided,
To express myself in words
I felt I was alive.


#review #ranjiwrites #poetry

" Beauty "

Never trust a mirror,
For it always lies,
It makes you believe,
All your worth is being seen from outside

#review #poem

Feel my palm rubbing your cheek,
My forefinger brushing on your lids.
My thumb tracing down your nose,
And touching your lips at ease.
Feel my forehead rested on yours gently,
And my nose touching yours with love.
As I lean in to breathe your exhaled air,
To feel assured that you are close.
Why do you still feel like a daydream, Honey?

©Pakhi
20.11.2020
#pm #poetry #review

DARE TO FEEL

Would you dare to feel?
The worst of worse,
The dark morose
The naked insults
And wayward force.

Such a life so vile,
A faithless dutch
With shallow smile
And mindless smirks

Voidal passion
Cold fire burnt
Saturated sweeteners
With poisoned cores.

The wasted words,
And useless vocabs
The voices unheard
Would you mind to explore?

©Pakhi
#review #poetry #pm

In my better days ,I'm just fine,
With a couple peace hours and maybe more
No breath around is what I adore

To God,
I whisper my desires
He replies with no word
And then we share a good laugh

There is so much, to him I complain about
And then in return he reminds me of my meals
And this is how the cycle repeats

I tell him how lonely sometimes it be,
to have so many brains around and no heart to remind you to live
And what a misery it is to sit disgusted in the hall of chaos and I wonder how I sustain

But then again He reminds me of myself , to go beyond set aesthetics , but only when you know,you know your true self

then to him I reply with no word
And we share a good laugh

In the end
I ask him to often give me a visit
In my better days
In my better days



#review

In my better days ,I'm just fine,
With a couple peace hours and maybe more
No breath around is what I adore

To God,
I whisper my desires
He replies with no word
And then we share a good laugh

There is so much, to him I complain about
And then in return he reminds me of my meals
And this is how the cycle repeats

I tell him how lonely sometimes it be,
to have so many brains around and no heart to remind you to live
And what a misery it is to sit disgusted in the hall of chaos and I wonder how I sustain

But then again He reminds me of myself , to go beyond the set aesthetics , but only when you know,you know ,your true self

then to him I reply with no word
And we share a good laugh

In the end
I ask him to often give me a visit
In my better days
In my better days



#review

DARE TO FEEL

Would you dare to feel?
The worst of worse,
The dark morose
The naked insults
And wayward force.

Such a life so vile,
A faithless dutch
With shallow smile
And mindless smirks

Voidal passion
Cold fire burnt
Saturated sweeteners
With poisoned cores.

The wasted words,
And useless vocabs
The voices unheard
Would you mind to explore?

©Pakhi
#review #poetry #pm

The flesh on your body,
I'm not an animal which you think I'm,
It doesn't excite me anymore,
The feeling of getting lost as you take off your shirt,
Cold nights are longer than warm nights,
I stared at you when you were naked next to me,
I couldn't figure out,
Am I an artist with broken fingers?
The stroke of my brush,
The way I look at you,
The way I feel about you,
I can try to draw,
I can try to express,
But, you won't understand if you don't feel the same,
Our hearts mind change,
You might fall for me later,
Or long before you realise that I was the rain you wanted to feel on your skin,
I'll be gone,
Don't regret it,
Look at the shining sun,
It'll rain again but it won't feel the same,
The odour of body,
The curves of your waist,
As my brush makes it smoothly,
The smile on your face,
As hair falls on your face,
Your elbows cross and cover your chest,
I left the brush and pulled that blanket up,
You grabbed my hand like a baby,
I couldn't resist but to accept, you're my baby.
I was a gambler who was trying to win back what I've lost,
But there's nothing I've been losing.
I won you.
You are laying next to me,
As I lay next to you,
Keep your hand in my hand,
I kiss your forehead and sleep.
~Luci
#review

Winter night

On a freezing cold winter night,
I sat by the frozen lake,
The glossy Moon & the glimmering stars,
As if lying there infront of my eyes,
Being reflected in that pellucid ice.

I sat under the bower of trees,
Swaying & fluttering away with the gust of cool breeze,
Shedding off the snow flakes,
From its snow ridden branches & leaves.

With traces of snow on my eyelashes,
A furry jacket & knee high boots,
Sunken deep in the ground,
Wrapped up by white smoke from all around.

Being a part of such a mesmerizing moment,
That other poets long for,
All I wish is for nothing more,
Fills my heart with joy galore.
#review #poetry #San