I want to learn...
By sreevasu
@sreevasu (2717)
India
June 21, 2007 3:34am CST
I want to learn to sit alone...
In the darkness, in stormy winds
Sit on my own lonely tree
Not weird of the snakes and witches
Without holding on your strong hands
I want to learn to walk alone...
with my heads down
through this unwieldy paths
I want learn to sing alone
With no one around to sing along
To sing for no one to hear
Sing with my non-shivering throat
As a lonely voice to deaf ears
I have to learn it now.
I want to learn to sleep
With no dreams, no tears
Without a wake up in the midnight
and without searching you beside me
I want to learn to die
Not on your lap looking at you
Without shedding tears from your eyes
Without wetting my lips with a drop from your hand
Without making anyone cry for me
Without waving a farewell
I want to learn to be alone
I want to learn...
4 responses
@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
21 Jun 07
I do not know what to make of this my dear friend. As a poem or free flowing thought, I understand it and enjoyed it's complexities. But as a friend, I wonder is there something bothering you. Something deep within you, that needs to come out.
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@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
21 Jun 07
ok, if you say so. Just checking up on a friend !!
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@gpraveenkumar5 (981)
• India
21 Jun 07
A Good piece of work. Congratz that you have put some work , But are you rally melancholy struck , or did you just make it up for the poem. Good Luck !!!
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@sreevasu (2717)
• India
21 Jun 07
Praveen, the poem(!?) addresses myself. It is not of this century but it was there from the beginning and it will be there till the end. After all it is life and life is like that. It has ups and downs... One 'up' may be for a deep fall and one fall may follow something more 'up'. Who knows?
Thank you for the concern.
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@gpraveenkumar5 (981)
• India
21 Jun 07
It seems like you were struck with some serious problem. Feel free to share it you have...
But it seems like you poem address the change of attitude of people in the century. The other rather the wrong side of frindship is being taken up. I feel your poem address those is it ?
Anyway good Luck !!
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
21 Jun 07
that was awesome!! the thoughts rendered are simple yet so deep.
'I want to learn to die Not on your lap looking at you
Without shedding tears from your eyes
Without wetting my lips with a drop from your hand
Without making anyone cry for me...'
i think, this has a great implication. i wish even i could learn to do so.
thank you Mr. poet.
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