I Have Everything Under Control

This poem is about the moments each one of us goes through at least once, if not a few times, when all that we want to do is shut ourselves to the outside world and spend time alone..

Fragments of memories from the past

Trespassing into the present

Breaking through the tough barriers of

I-have-everything-under-control

Proving otherwise.

Making me vulnerable,

To weakest assault of words -

Meant to hurt intentionally or unintentionally.

I dread them, often,

As they come uninvited, uninhibited.

I find myself detaching from the world -

Curling up into myself, like a foetus.

My own world, with only me in it, the womb.

It is energizing & encouraging -

To be with myself, trusting only myself

Until I am ready to face the world again

And I-have-everything-under-control.

Author's Note

Image (c) Google Images
Poem (c) Arti Honrao

Reviews

[Pradeep Nair]

memories are meant to be trespassed into presence ...
and i love ....> I find myself detaching from the world Curling up into myself, like a foetus."... Wonderful.

What shall I say... it's really great.