Lost Between Two Worlds

One is my home, the other is where I live.

One is bright and beautiful, the other is dark and grim.

The world I want is only to be visited, the other I try to escape, yet can't.

I have the need to feel that joy of imagination, of hope, yet I'm stuck staring at blank pages.

I want to have adventure and feel the thrill of being the hero, but instead I am caged.

Constantly trying to stay in that faraway place, but somehow always pulled back no matter how hard I try.

I always feel its call and sometimes slip into its warm embrace, but cold fingers of reality wrench me back.

Always torn between the world I want and the world I'm on. It feels as if I'm shuttled to and fro between these places and it’s hard to feel as if I belong.

Reviews

[Anjali]

this piece of poetry is so good! it really shows the pain in your words! just great. and congrats you have won 2nd place in any type of poetry contest! :)

[Najam Us Saher]

You have expressed very deep thoughts in this poem. I love the way you have used apt metaphors. Truly well written.

[Vera]

Thank you very much, this is one of my favorites so I'm glad you liked it as well. :)

[Najam Us Saher]

Yeah it was really well written. :) I could relate to it.