15 November 2025

Postponed Life

If the world doesn’t 
end tomorrow,
I would spit out the wad 
stuck in my throat 
to scream my guts out.

I would climb a mountain,
walk into a forest,
throw myself off a plane
and dive into the deep 
sea just to hear how 
silence would sound.

Maybe I would call 
you too and as a 
final act of love I might 
rip my heart out to
place it at your feet to
sing blasphemous 
confessions.

This life stuck in 
the nose that I can't 
sneeze out-
I need a new hammer 
to break it open.

I gotta run, jump, fall
to jolt me awake to
a radical change..

So lemme reiterate.
If the world doesn’t 
end tomorrow,
I would begin again.
properly start the life
I keep postponing.

But aghast!
it always seems
it'll end tomorrow,
or next hour,
or right now-

every breath feels
like a countdown.
always on my toes-
waiting for an apocalypse
that never arrives to 
postpone a life
that never begins.