GONE

Wishful thinking is good unless it distracts you from reality. We have high hopes for everything. Be it career, relationships or other aspects of life, we need to know our pace and potential, have realistic goals and act to make dreams true. Think about how much you have lost in the process of getting something that doesn't matter.

Through this poem, one can consider these thoughts about life where the girl is portrayed as the one with high hopes but can't decide and settle for what's right for her and keeps wandering vaguely.

GONE

I got the moon for you
But you were gone
To find someone new
To get the stars for you.

When he fetched the stars
You were gone
Looking for someone
To bring the sun from afar.

He carried the sun for you
And you were gone
Because now
You wanted flowers and dew.

You went away.
Burnt everything and everyone
On the way.
Leaving us in dismay.

Why don't you stay?
Let's finish the game
You started to play.
I'll get you more if you say.

Until no longer
You ask for more
Because you'll know
That the things you want
Are not what you need.
But now, you won't understand this
Because you are gone.

-Roma Joshi

SUICIDE

She was worried
About all the things that happened
And all the things that were possible.
She hurried
To the places she had to go
Not to the places she wanted to.
She feared
The evil she thought she was.
Not that she was one.
She lived
To fulfil what others demanded.
Not the way she felt right.
She died
Thinking that she was no one.
Now that her soul knows is wrong.

Because suicide is not an option. We don't realize what our life's worth until it slips away. Don't live in constant worry, fear or doubts. They are temporary. There is a constant shift in life. Things always tend to get better. A dark phase wanes and new opportunities are always on the way. Sometimes all it takes is a little hope, a bit more of waiting and a leap of faith. Believe.