I Gave You Everything

I gave you everything

That a man could need

I kept giving and giving

Till my heart couldn’t bleed.

 Yet you couldn’t see

That I had bled

You remained blind

To the tears I shed.

 Now I have nothing left-

Neither my mind nor me,

So please let me go

In solitude let me be.

 My tear-stained eyes

With dreams I didn’t dare

Will stare into oblivion

Yet you won’t care.

 So let me go please

Free me from your chain

That you tied me with

Now lie in my brain.

 I pace sideways

Like a bird in a cage

My wings now broken

Before your rage.

 I can’t sing for you,

All those words seem dead

Yet all your curses

Parade around my head.

 Were I just the worm

And not the bird you seek

And find myself taken

By the bird in its beak.

 Life would be shorter

Fate playing its part

At least I would bleed

From my crushed tiny heart.

~Siddharth Sanyal~