Spoken Word: Recent Episodes
spriha gautam
A series of spoken word poems written over a span of years. From a messy teenager to a little less messier adult.
This is a trial episode which was NEVER MEANT TO BE published. It’s an impromptu conversation between friends about life, their views as newly turned adults and anything and everything.
The poem takes a stance of the emotional toll of falling out of love. Falling in love is easier, beautiful. But falling out of love is a wreck. Heart breaks are honest and touch the deepest corners of your soul. The pain cleanses your soul if you get it.
They cannot let go. They won’t let go. Not again. Not this time. Years later, they find a place to tell all their favourite songs and laugh at all their favourite jokes. They have missed each other, haven’t they? They have a word for each other “Irreplaceable.”
Sometimes love is dependent on the time, the period, the phase of your life. After years of being apart, they meet. They meet with the peace they hadn’t felt in a long time. A long turmoil has settled. But is it too late? Will they let go this time?
Do you remember the time where hearts hadn’t been broken, where parts of us hadn’t been scattered in people we meet along the way? This is a story about a someone who watches their past self, love unconditionally without any fear. This is a story about someone who has never loved that way, and questions if it is right to love someone the way the neighbourhood girl does.