Sheetal Potdar

Someone is inside my head
At first they knock
Wanting to be let out.
They try from the forehead end
To exit through the skull.
They hammer on the other side.
This time my brain jangles.
There is a ringing somewhere,
I can sense their desperation 
In my own desperation
To let them out.
I hold my head
Trying to squeeze them out.
The carpet I lay out
Burns my skin 
Yet they won't come out.
They try to exit
Through my ears,
Go into my jaw
Looking for a way out,
through my mouth.
No pen and paper
Can let them out.
This is not any ordinary thought
They attack my spirit,
Seize my day.
Turning me into a foetus
Asking for forgiveness 
For my existence.
I pray for sleep
Hoping they will leave me in my dreams.
I shake my head to check
They are there; they assure me.
I am trapped in them
As they are in me.