How do you write a poem? 
Capture that teasing inspiration,
make it dance inside your head 
and in sudden burst of rage 
pen it down, 
like heavy downpour
clean and fast,
smooth and gay.
But I am the dirty one
unlike the natural
I write and rub 
tear and stop,
look up and change the words.
I fret and tire 
painfully
like giving birth,
but lacking that moment 
of divine happiness
when you feel your baby in your arms, 
coz somewhere in all my fuzz and measuring, 
I loose my moment of birth 
and I wonder 
Am I wrting a poem after all?

- Shoonya