what if i say?!

What if I say?

What if i say that the sky sings lullabies 
to the people sleeping on the streets 
in the cold winter nights?!

What if i say that the demons on the roads 
guard us of the harms that are second away 
with the help of the dogs?!

What if i say that the girl writing 
her heart out which touched the emotions 
of the people was actually a heartless?!

What if i say that the living are being dead 
in the eyes of the people who are already dead 
and they are praying for us to live?!

What if i say that the suicide note 
I wrote on the previous day is just a way to 
help me understand the value of life?!

What if i say that the work she left in the halfway 
was actually her way of finding the end 
from the other side of perspective?!

What if i say that the boy on the road 
begging for alms is actually begging for 
an early death to his abusive father?!

What if i say that the last paper on your diary 
is scared of being used just as a space for rough work 
or to check whether the pen is working or not?!

What if i say that everything i write is some way

or the other asking you for help and waiting for someone to

lend their hand to save me from falling into the black hole?!

What if i say that the person whom you thought best 

was obliged to be the best all his life without caring of his feelings 

and the things he loved to do?!

What if i say that this never stops hurting me 
and hurting never stops despite the urge to heal the soul 
from the inside burns?!

©Sushritha Danturi