Best Poems Written by Ayushi Trehan

Graffiti Boy

I once knew a boy 
who'd roam street to street 
with a brush in his hand
and a bucket at his feet

He'd put little shadows in corners 
where sunshine couldn't reach,
And string alphabets into quotes
from books he couldn't read

He'd draw half hearts that'd complete
in a different crimson hue,
And splatter rainbows upside-down,
he couldn't tell violet from blue

He'd paint tides across deserts
that rose and fell with the light,
And birth mermaids in silver
that glistened in a new moon night

He'd sketch open doors in tall walls
that'd make you escape in one look
He knew only a little math
he left behind more than he took

But on one fateful day
they took his brush away
Wrote laws with his stencil
'For ruining walls, he has to pay'

I now know a freckled man
who sits back against tobacco stains
with that bucket in his stretched hand
and pennies soaked in rotting paint.

Copyright © Ayushi Trehan | Year Posted 2017