Ruby - Astari Boedikoentjara
Questions with questions
That’s how you answer
Not much you mention,
‘though you’re such talkers
How to expect you to understand,
I’m enjoying my silence as you fall
I could do the dance and amuse them all
No, I’m staying still
waiting for the news
before going in for the kill
If time were relative,
then I’d like a pause
for a sense of relief
without any cause.
Let me roam around,
Once in a while,
It’s only a few steps away
just to get to you
yet it also feels like miles
perhaps even days
that I have to go through
All apologies
Set me free
from the same, old miseries
no point in getting angry
but tortured in ‘so-called’ stoicity
Nobody wins.
Everybody loses.
Stories told,
bought and sold.
Facts versus fiction.
No more sweet smiles
full of toxic and vile
the beauty of your face
a sense of my disgrace
Your once soft, soothing voice
Come...
Come back...
Come back to us...
Come back to use, please...
Every line’s a trigger
The secondhand poem
you once wrote for me
now used to woo another lady
Boy, you’re so lazy!
If she knew the backstory,
she’d be displeased
How do we get to be this estranged?
We’re all the same
treating each other differently
instead of trying to understand
without too much judgment
Call me by my name
Know who I am
It’s my identity
if you wish to speak to me
It’s a simple request
Run, run away
You, with no shame
Never return, not a day
I’ll remember your name
with sickness in me
