dhruvijmehta

[dhruvijmehta]

OVERCOMING

Well I guess I’m staying

All my plans to run away

Have failed miserably

Well can you say something?

All this saying nothing

Hasn’t got us anywhere

Oh I’m in a maze

Can’t find a way

Guesses are unreliable

Oh speak the truth

Shout it out

It’s time the cat came out

I’m waiting

Every second is a year

Well watch the seasons go by

Quick I’m withering

Drifting on an orange day

Well may the travel make up your mind

Quick I’m freezing

Orange is turning white

Oh I’m in a maze

Can’t find a way

Guesses are unreliable

Oh speak the truth

Shout it out

It’s time the cat came out

I’m waiting

Every second is a year

There you said it

What was so hard?

There you said it

What made you think I’d tear you apart?

There you said it

A tree shoots up

There you said it

I see the light from above

Oh I’m in a maze

Can’t find a way

Guesses are unreliable

Oh a game of two

What’s to lose

But yourself?

I’m waiting

At the finish line

I’m waiting

Every second is a year

-Dhruvi J Mehta

[dhruvijmehta]

BEAUTIFUL

I’m afraid it’s a cruel world

Why’d you have to be cruel to me?

Woke up this morning to watch you leave

You’re never coming back, are you? Are you?

Only a broken heart

Can break a heart

What broke you

Beautiful? Beautiful

I’m afraid it’s a cruel world

Why’d you have to be cruel to me?

Woke up this morning to watch you leave

You’re never giving in, are you? Are you?

Only a broken heart

Can make a scar

What broke you

Beautiful? Beautiful

Went to work like it was religion

Worked like it was God

Called my parents like it was religion

Spoke to them like it was God

Called my friends like it was religion

Spoke to them like it was God

God! Help me make my peace

I’m on my knees

I’m on my knees

Help me make my peace

Only a broken heart

Can break a heart

What broke you,

Beautiful? Beautiful

Woke up his morning to watch you leave

-Dhruvi J Mehta

[dhruvijmehta]

RISING

I’m rising from the ashes

I’m building this city again

I’ve fallen one too many times

Been taken by the tide

Been set on fire

I’m falling in for good this time

Got strength in my arms

Steel in my eyes

I’m rising, I’m rising

I’m fighting, I’m fighting

I’m rising from the ashes

I’m building this city again

I’ve said it one too many times

They ask, “What’s different now?”

They ask, “Why now?”

I say it loud and clear this time

Unafraid of the past

Unafraid of the grind

I’m rising, I’m rising

I’m fighting, I’m fighting

I’m on the rise

They’ve got their eyes on me

They’ve got their eyes on me

Hunt me down, shoot me down

Try all your tricks

Try all your tricks

I’m rising from the ashes

I’m building this city again

I’m rising, I’m rising

I’m fighting, I’m fighting

-Dhruvi J Mehta

[dhruvijmehta]

IF YOU COULD BE A FRIEND

It’s cold here on the outside

Within walls that say “No rules”

I’m tired knocking at your door

Won’t you show me your room?

I want to be your neighbor

You make me your guest

I’d rather have you fight me or like me

Than serve nonchalance

I loved you once upon a time

I love you still

I could tone it down

Turn it around

If you could be a friend

There’s no point leaving

If you and I want to stay

So let’s get rebuilding

Owning up to our mistakes

I am you antique

We only get better with time

But you better know my worth

Or you’ll have to pay the price

I loved you once upon a time

I love you still

I could tone it down

Turn it around

If you could be a friend

I keep you

You mean something to me

Why keep something

If it don’t mean nothing to you?

I loved you once upon a time

I love you still

I could tone it down

Turn it around

If you could be a friend

Light the fire maybe?

Make it warm again

Light the fire maybe?

Make it warm again

-Dhruvi J Mehta

[dhruvijmehta]

THE SAVE

You showed me the mirror this morning

My face still sore from the fight

My face alone I could see for a change

In the bathroom light

I thought it’d take the sun or moon

An epiphany of some kind

To clear the cloudy mess I’ve been

For a couple fortnights

Look now it’s me looking at me

Look now it’s you looking at you

Look now it’s you looking at me

Look now it’s me looking at you

It’s like I have been watching through somebody else’s eyes

A set mind hijacked by a set of wondrous lies

How do you recognize yourself when they take the buildings down?

How do you then direct yourself in your own home town?

I thought it’d take the sun or moon

An epiphany of some kind

To clear the cloudy mess I’ve been

For a couple fortnights

Look now it’s me looking at me

Look now it’s you looking at you

Look now it’s you looking at me

Look now it’s me looking at you

I’m sorry for the time I stole

I’m sorry for the time I gave

I thank you for your patience

I thank you for the save

I thought it’d take the sun or moon

An epiphany of some kind

To clear the cloudy mess I’ve been

For a couple fortnights

Look now it’s me looking at me

Look now it’s you looking at you

Look now it’s you looking at me

Look now it’s me looking at you

You drove me around last evening

After the fist fight

Said a dream is all it takes to dream

So dream again tonight

- Dhruvi J Mehta

[dhruvijmehta]

PAIN

Pain

Shoots up in my chest

As I’m waking from a dream

It spreads onto my fingertips

It spreads onto my feet

It captures my neck

It captures my head

I can’t breathe

I can’t move on

I can’t move on

You’re here I can’t take it

You’re gone I can’t take it

You’re really gone

Aren’t you?

And I’m left with this

I’m left with this

Pain

Dies down eventually

As I’m living through a day

Why think of cities that burned

Of cities that drowned

Never found again

Find light in a storm

Find happiness in emptiness

Or sleep through a day

Dream through a day instead

I can’t move on

I can’t move on

You’re here I can’t take it

You’re gone I can’t take it

You’re really gone

Aren’t you?

And I’m left with this

I’m left with this

Pain rises, pain falls

Like a bird

Burnt and blue

Red and gold

It grows, it glows

So brave, so bold

Burnt and blue

Red and gold

You’re here I can’t take it

You’re gone I can’t take it

You’re really gone

Aren’t you?

And I’m left with this

I’m left with this

Pain

- Dhruvi J Mehta