Breathe in We are so used to involuntarily breathing That we never care to see Whether the oxygen we breathe depletes Only to realise it when the scarcity hits us Like a metal ball thrown at our chest And our chests contract, our lungs choke And we are left panting for breath Breathe in. Breathe out. We burn things we hate Things we don't want to face again Breathe a sigh of relief But we don't care for the oxygen Because we know the oxygen doesn't burn It doesn't feel pain It just gets consumed Breathe in. Breathe out. Consume. We never care to think How the oxygen manages to survive How it comes back to us Even after we take it for granted And consume it as if it is an endless river The cycle was taught to us in school But we choose to forget it selectively Like everything that came printed in textbooks Breathe in. Breathe out. Consume. Forget. There is awareness now About the scarcity of oxygen in the air But no one actually cares about The person who is or once was So essential for their survival, for their life That they named them oxygen Because human beings are easy to replace And hence we never care about them Breathe in. Breathe out. Consume. Forget. Replace. We move on with life With our fresh source of oxygen Because no one ever cared about The empty container which once was filled With things they consumed to survive We would have cared If it was a inanimate dead body That we had to dispose But disposing off a person dead on the inside Is as easy as throwing off an empty container In the garbage bin on the road Breathe in. Breathe out. Consume. Forget. Replace. Move on. . . - The Obsolete Poet //Oxygen// . . Image : Album cover of Oxygen by Aghonya . . "Hawaaon se jo maanga hissa mera To badle main hawa ne saans di Akelepan se chhedi jab guftagu Mere dil ne aawaaz di" . . #writography #writer #obsolescence #ObsoleteDiaries #obsolete #poetry #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #wordporn #writing #instapoet #igpoets #instagramwriters #poetrygram #poet #poetrycommunity #poetsofig #PoetsOfInstagram #poem #poetryinmotion #drunkpoetssociety #poetryisnotdead #spilledink #creativewriting #words #art #quotes #quote #poetsoftumblr (at Mumbai, Maharashtra)









