--- title: Devil date: 2008-05-16T08:36:07Z modified: 2020-08-20T14:52:42Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/devil/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 198 categories: - Life Poems tags: - Life Poems - devil featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/devil.jpg" featured_image_alt: Devil author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2020-08-20T14:52:42Z --- There is a little devil in all of us. ![Devil](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/devil.jpg) i had plenty to say, i had to plenty to talk, words that once came gushing out, words that just wouldn’t let this mouth close, now merely disappeared out of trace; i tried searching it in the bank, if i had mistakenly deposited it there, i tried looking into my piggy bank, if i playfully put it inside; i searched high and i searched low, somehow, i couldn’t find them all; after a long and hard night, that left me in disarray, i woke up to find them, strewn all over the place; little bit there, little bit here, some near, some far; i wondered, how is it possible, what i said so far, is what i said, what i said, is what i mean; maybe its the [devil](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/devils-workshop.md), that’s playing a game, maybe its the devil, inside me, hidden behind these little black clouds; have i let loose the devil that once hibernated inside me, plenty of words, plenty of talk, replaced by the one , that once was me, once i was the devil; ———————————————————————————————————————— **note:** the title is a song by Stereophonics. this has multiple meanings, how u read it defines how it means to you.