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We are in the middle of nowhere
We cannot stop to listen to ourselves, to our souls that conjure
Mirroring the brokenness of our existence
Transient as ever, we talk to the hushed voices inside our heads
expecting everything, neglecting resistance.
We are stuck in the monotone of having to breathe
Bleeding tears of dismissed dreams, succumbing to a protective sheath
Which never was, always appeared to be
And there we are, waiting for forever to come, set us free
We have nothing to hold on to, yet have so much to let go
We are trying too hard to perfect our scars, tame our shadow
It’s a beginning to the end of what we believe we can make
Of the rubble we toppled down to, but there’s no escape
We are hanging on to plummeting petals of a dehisced flower,
One that never ceased to bloom,
Thrown adrift, by our tyranny’s power.
A seven-year-old girl stood up
In the midst of the council
She’s chubby faced,
With faint pink cheeks
And a curly hair
She asked the preacher a question
About life, family and cruelty
Quite prudent for a child, I said
I was looking at her, then my heart
Suddenly bleeds
As If a wound dehisced
From a forceful comeback

I saw my nine-year-old self
In a locked room, crying alone
Asking God the same questions
Why are some children mean to other children?
Will I ever get fair and slim?
How will I be accepted ?
All these years I've bagged these queries
That greatly affected my esteem
I felt that I was a fault in the universe
For being different and unpretty

But as years unfold, so as the answers
Life has thought me that I should
Not try to fit in some else’s box
And nurture the strength
That would make me feel alive
To have a bigger room in your heart
For patience and tolerance
And for parents, an extra compassion
For an ailing child
Let them breathe in someone else’s shoulder
If you cannot provide

Life was my teacher
I may not have heard about these before
But experiences geared me up
Towards understanding it
Though sometimes it is learned
The hardest and painful way
The life I’ve led and the preacher
Said the same things

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