Parvez Shaikh

How much do I have to raise my pitch,
So that the eyes don't freeze n hearts don't ditch.

Here is the time for happiness and cheer,
But look through my eyes and you'll see a tear.

The words I speak are never to be heard,
Am I too courageous or others too coward.

Having no one to talk to makes the anger build within,
So I think hard and loud, knowing I need to raise my chin.

I fight with myself all the time,
Trying to build my life with a new rhyme.

I just want all this anger within me to just come out,
I have this huge urge just to shout.

Sometimes I think all the things I do are a sin,
I just want to release the real me from being hidden within.

Oh LORD!!! How much I have to raise my pitch,
So that the knot of life doesn't appear as a loose stitch.