The Warehouse Window

For my sunlight,
its glass cut through a concrete wall
the edges crumbled and rocky,
like an unfinished birthday cake.
No place for symmetry or neatness
when testing and receiving
networking equipment with a candelabra of cords.
The whir of fans, hard drives,
circuit boards, modules, and power supplies
are their own orchestra.

I’m their repeating crowd for this ensemble
I have memorized all their
performances, crescendos, movements,
choruses, and solos.
The yoked fluorescent lights,
stallion forklift, or gluttonous cardboard compactor
endlessly feasting in the corner
by the loading dock where
an occasional wasp wanders inside this mirage
to die in a papery sleep.

That sunshine above’s the same
as in my son’s elementary school window
sloping through the courtyard where ferns
and flowerpots hide a dry duck nest.
The kids named her Simone.
She has three eggs
an opaque olive, pearl, and coral.
They’re blurbs of shell and membrane.
They wanted to name them too,
but those dreams weren’t real yet.
You have to know they’ll live.

I knew my classroom wall
beside our courtyard door
where we pasted, crinkled, and scribbled
dinosaurs, sloths, and squids
against paper sorceries of
marine life, prehistoric countrysides,
and endless amazon jungles.
We had our own momma duck too,
her name long empty amongst almost everything
I remembered, wondered,
and dreamed

in fourth grade.

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“You are the King, and I am your Star”

It was etched, carved, and bled there
by you and my uncle.
A lost language scribbled
upon your trauma Rosetta Stone.
Years after you’d moved off
the street, shack, slum
and into this real home,
devoid of rats, rags,
and abusive fathers.

It was on a beam in the basement,
behind an old TV box,
with dead earwigs in its folds.
The house once had a garden
from your mother, my grandmother.
And those bugs, the clawed ink-drops
were living everywhere
their husks, fossil-songs
to her stalks of cherry tomatoes.

The wood was creased, parted,
and curled, as if the vignette had just happened.
You were still the two little boys
marking it yours, with the sunlight
tracing through a ground-level window,
growing life in a non-chlorophyll pattern
from 94 million miles away
a natural spotlight on hope between past and future.

We found it when I was moving out.
Another bout of depression, failed
relationship, and unpaid rent
for your childhood home
you bought when grandma died.
It was a piece of you; something you wanted
for memory, family, a forever symbol of safety.
A limb of hope after
so many emotional dismemberments.

I could not hold onto it,
It was slippery, slimy, a dream that didn’t want
to be held, an eel lurking in the quagmire,
eternally wriggling away
beneath the subtlest grasp.
Your sanctuary was another rubble-sunk Atlantis,
so now, years after it was sold and lost
your first glimmer amongst the poverty

I can at least remember what it said.

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I Can’t Change the Sunlight

First, it was the beams between dust,
highlighting particles dancing
in my parent’s basement
with chocolate carpet and an eyebrow window.
Where we, old friends and lovers,
would swap dreams and desires
until you tearfully realized I couldn’t do anything
but wrestle with my depression.

Then, rays of it glittering in jeweled reflections
during our honeymoon
on an emerald lagoon, with tropic tips, and
bows of sand being plucked by Key Largo waves.
That sediment could never be a keep or castle,
it was too broken, fragmented,
and fragile to form any support.
Just like us.

Next was the morning slanting through
the bay window over the couch of our old house.
A theater seat for our fights, screaming, throwing, thrashing,
and every detail of my unending depression.
You, my son, are on my lap, asleep, an infant.
I’m crying, and the tears sting your forehead.
I wipe them away, my trauma baptism,
I have an endless supply.

This stardust anchor falling through time
and space, cracking the earth’s atmosphere,
honing our existence, growing our cells,
is a cosmic stake piercing my heart.
It will not end me. I’m always undead.
Worse, it reminds me honestly
that this daylight trigger
will always be there

as long as I am.

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Read my poem “Kindness”

Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.

Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.

When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.

We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.

I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloom

I don’t know what to do.

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💔 Loving You, Losing Me is the story of love that felt like a slow unraveling #LovingYouLosingMe #HeartbreakPoetry #PoeticBipolarMind #LoveAndLoss #ConfessionalPoetry #PoetryOfHeartbreak #ModernPoetry #EmotionalWriting #PoetsOfInstagram

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The best writing doesn’t just entertain—it moves people.
This week’s #TonyTipsTuesdays post shows you how to write with real emotion that sticks with readers long after the last page.

📝 Read it here: https://wix.to/G8clU3r
Make them feel it.

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"Some love stays quiet, just to keep the other breathing."
#ToKeepLoveBreathing
#PoetryOfTheSoul
#UnseenSacrifices
#PoemOfTheDay
#LoveInSilence
#EmotionalWriting
#NatureAsMetaphor
#HealingThroughWords
#PoetryForTheHeart
#ModernPoet
#QuietLove
#SelfDiscoveryJourney
#LettingGoWithLove

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💔 Love in the Air Chokes Me 💔
Not all love uplifts, some blinds.
This poem questions how lightly we use "love" today, and reminds us what real, raw love truly means.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mahishadesai/p/love-in-the-air-chokes-me?r=4dafmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Poetry #LoveInTheAirChokesMe #TrueLove #ModernLove #DeepThoughts #SpokenSoul 🖤✨
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What happens when one emotion writes a letter to another filled with emotions?
Dive into my new Substack post “Sorrow’s Love Letter” and witness a delicate dance between sorrow, anger, and the longing for peace.
Check it out to feel what words alone can’t say.

🖋️ Read here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/mahishadesai/p/sorrows-love-letter?r=4dafmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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