Black and White

The song of a woman, suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.

 

Sad, unloved and alone, she sits behind the bars

Of a prison made of broken dreams, that fell from broken stars

She builds this world of pain around her to lock away the light

And reposes in the shadowed realms of a life in black and white

 

You do not know why the sun never rises for me

You do not know why the emptiness is all that I can see

So I paint my dreams in the brightest Technicolor of light

To break away from the chains of a life in black and white

 

She loved him once upon a time when blossoms fell from clouds

Now she walks by graves of hope draped in Beauty’s shrouds

She showed him a million vibrant shades of a life of sweet delight

But all that Fate could show him in the end was her life in black and white

 

You do not know why the morning never dawns for me

You do not know why the darkness sets my spirit free

So I paint my dreams in colours warm and bright

And sleep on a bed in the house of Life in black and white

 

Friends loved her first and foremost, foremost amongst them all

But then they let her burn to ashes and like the snow she’d fall

Fall for years and months and days, like tears of a forest sprite

Until she let herself succumb to a life in black and white

 

You do not know why the ocean breaks under my feet

And drowns me along with all my tears making it complete

I am the song of silence, the daylight of the night

I am the last survivor of a life in black and white

I am the last survivor of a life in black and white

Reviews

[Hidden Happiness]

i am the song of silence, the daylight of the night- that was my favourite...this poem is so beautiful and at the same time time so sad...i could definitely feel the pain and the gloom that the lady you wrote about was feeling...just beautiful...great job:-).

[Amrutha A Varma]

May the stars gaze upon your talent
May the ocean go still
Such amazing is your writing
The world may go still.

Your writing is so beautiful...You are truly gifted...

[KurKota]

You are truly a gifted writer. I stand in awe of your mastery of the craft. In this piece I think you have put together all the things that make a poem exquisite. The cadence, the stucture, the use of phrasing without it feeling contrived. Just a masterful work. It definitely is going into my Library as a favorite. It is an example of superb excellence, in my humble opinion. I have to tell you this is my first 100 of 100 in anything I have read to date.

[zainul]

Bangali lolonar lekhai ki shundor jibonchitro!
What a beautiful sketch of life in the write of Bengali girl!
Just makes me jealous!
100/100