Let my heart cry a little tonight
Let my eyes be wet
Let my soul emit more light
So I can forget
My heart is still so very young
But it feels so old
Words that flew off from my tongue
Should never have been told
Make my heart more complicate
Then there’ll be nothing new
Like my lungs that suffocate
Coloured in poison-blue
Let my heart cry a little tonight
To help me ease my pain
Hoping the tears of this night
Shall never come back again
Don’t fire your arrows at me
Don’t pierce my soul this way
Don’t make me bleed anymore now
My heart is in decay
I don’t consider it a battle
You make it seem a war
I have never held a weapon
Or fought someone before
I was thrown in this arena
I wasn’t meant to be here
This excruciating pain
Doesn’t disappear
I surrender to your might
No longer I can compete
I have to bleed myself out
And swallow this defeat
Crush me once and for all
Show me not your sympathy
Bury me cold, alive but
Don’t fire your arrows at me
Can I keep a secret?
Tell nobody else?
The only way to do it
I must hide it from myself
My head’s a little hungry
My heart’s a little poor
I’ve always been fearful
I’ve never been sure
I keep delaying things
I keep running round
Like an unknown planet
Waiting to be found
I could change myself but it still will be me
I could never walk straight right through a door
For my head will always be hungry
And my heart will always be poor
My lips are tasteless
My eyes are a blur
I’ve always been frightened
Of that there’s no cure
I keep learning things
I keep forgetting folks
I remember every tear
Hidden in my jokes
I know all about the world but nothing about me
I’ve a desk full of honours, prizes galore
But my head will always be hungry
And my heart will always be poor
My dreams are quite simple
My thoughts I adore
My pulses are special
Down to the core
I have a lot of problems
I am full of flaws
I am indecisive
It’s part of my clause
Whatever I am, whatever I may be
Silly, foolish, naive, dumb, immature
But my head will always be hungry
And my heart will always be pure
You never really know Malaria
Unless you get it
You would not know Chickenpox
Until you’ve caught it
The same thing applies to
Common cold, broken bones
Or Pneumonia or Tuberculosis
Or Diabetes or Asthma
Or even Obesity
No matter how much you’ve heard of them
Or seen people suffer from them
You are never really prepared
To defend yourself from their attacks
When one day you wake up and find
That despite all your precautions
You have been caught
Same holds true for Love
There was once a rabbit
Who ate nothing but steel
When somebody asked him
He said, “It’s no big deal.”
He chewed off pieces of steel
That he could ever find
Had them all day and ensured
That he left no scraps behind
Some frog jokingly called him
“Hey, Man of…, I mean, Rabbit of Steel
Why don’t you go save the world?
Then tell us how it feels.”
But the rabbit contemplated
— Boy, the frog is right
I must pack my bags at once
Save the world from fright
Ever since that blessed day
He’s been fighting all sorts of fears
It’s been a-many centuries
It’ll be many more years
So if you ever feel afraid
Of anything or anyone
Just call out to your rabbit friend
All your fears will be gone
Oh this education system is a fail
They say math is beautiful
To that I will agree
They say math speaks truth
But that truth I can’t see
Well at least you can see my heart wail
Oh this education system is a fail
Oh this education system is a fail
They taught me calculus
I studied zero and pi
Math is supposed to be fun
But boy it makes me cry
They’re hammering my head with a nail
Oh this education system is a fail
Oh this education system is a fail
I can solve all the problems
With sin, cos and tan
But I don’t know how to use them
I don’t know where or when
How much longer will this madness prevail?
Oh this education system is a fail
Oh this education system is a fail
I am a master of none
But a jack of all trades
I never bothered learning
Only bothered about grades
I’m a boat with winds but no sail
Oh this education system is a fail
I: I
Her: (sigh)
I: Me
Her: We
My wife and I have our blogs
I write poems, everybody knows
My wife does nothing of the sort
Except upload cat videos
I’ve got a lot of followers
Twenty thousand or maybe more
She’s got over two million
But well who’s keeping the score?
In the middle of the night
I woke up with a start
When I felt some heavy breathing
Neighbouring my heart
I rubbed my eyes to see
A frightening monstrous surprise
Staring back at me sternly
With two giant wobbly eyes
He crawled ever so close to me
And gave a hideous roar
Everything started to tremble
Even the windows and the door
I stretched my right hand out
To keep the monster at bay
Hid my face between the knees
As I began to cry and pray
The monster took my hand
Shook it a little bit
I looked up and saw him smiling
I was at the end of my wit
O’ the monster was only lonely
He had no bad intend
The roar was his way of saying
“Will you be my friend?”
Yes, we are good friends now
But don’t tell this to my brother
Keep this our little secret
Maybe I’ll tell you another
Frank Solanki 