You know, it’s scarier than being left in an isolated house,
Darker than the darkest of the nights;
To feel nothing, absolutely nothing at all,
& To walk through a tunnel at the end of which you know there is definitely no light!

You know, it’s more exhausting than climbing a mountain,
And feels heavier to lift weight as light as that of a feather;
To walk on to the paths you never choose for yourself,
And to gather the lost dreams every night and spilling them on a paper.

You know, it’s harder than solving complex puzzles,
And more difficult to understand than some twisted phrase;
To get an explanation for all the miseries this life put you into,
In its very own mysterious ways.

You know, it’s more deafening than the loudest noise,
And more unbearable than heaviest weights on your back;
To listen to the words that were never spoken,
And to carry on your soul the weight of the silence that echoed back!

So if you ever care to ask me,
“What is that I want?”
Then
Without a doubt my answer would be;
I just want “you to know!”

Yukti Trivedi