Three Poems by Aarav Dhital

Pain

When you feel pain 
Like no other 
You want to erase that pain
You want to bottle it 
Cause you can’t humanly 
Stand it anymore 
So people cause more pain to themselves 
For that one second of overmatched 
Sense of numbness
That one millisecond of euphoria 
For that one microsecond of no worry 
For no earthly bound to hold you down 
You know that it’s wrong but you can’t stand it
That your heart can’t stand
That if the slightest of pain will turn
Your heart into shreds
And so you do it and then
There is a moment of silence
And then it ends…

***

False Identity

As the places burn 
I stand beside 
With your palms sweating 
And our hearts racing against time 

While the places burn 
We put on our greatest suits and stand 
We slide on our shades 
And open the fiery doors 
As if we are going to the hell 
We are going together in style 
We walk down the neighborhood street 
Burning to ash the devil himself walks with us 
As the skies turn into red 
And there is a waiting in the fiery pits of hell

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Burn 

As our eyes burn 
And the colors fade 
We ride into the sunset 
With the cash raining 
And our tears dripping 
With a grin from ear to ear
Passing the road 
Like bird without a cage
Free till the edge of the world
No clue where we going 
Bewildered in the modern jungle 
Like the last night of my life 
With no earthly care 
Or attachment for us 
Like feelings raining a waterfall
And our eyes blend the colors…

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[Aarav Dhital, 12, is yet to enter the teenage, studies in grade 7 at St. George College Mussoorie, India. He expresses himself in the form of poem when is encountered with some sentiments, joys and happiness. He is originally from, Kathmandu Nepal and resides in Goa, India.]