This quivering of my heart

Is intense and unbearable

It wants to break free

Is in a lot of trouble

It weighs me down

Keeps me lying low

Makes sure I’m submerged

That I’m going with the flow

I hang on to dear life

Like it is going to flee

Try as much as I may

Does not want to be in glee

That is the dark cloud

Called secret looming above

The pain that it fills in me

Has me starving for love

Hope to be rid of it

And be able to exhale

Be rid of the enigma

Do away with the veil

©RajaniNair