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Internal Inharmony: A Short Poem

4/19/2020

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Written by: Saira Uttamchandani

When I saw you for the first time
There was an
Instant connection - a ruby thread
Twisting, dancing, craning, looping
Around our wrists
We both stole a glance and
shook it off, a nuisance, a pesky fly
Ignoring its promising
Golden glow and whispers of a better time

Time flowed by like a rushing river
Weathering away at my 
Soul
Conscience 
Heart
Everything was numb with ice 
when it could have been blanketed with warmth
With you
But I held on

Until reality dealt out a final blow
My anchor in the storm became my assailant
Struck out with a saber of slander
A saccharine smile disguising a spiteful soul
The carefree facade melted off my face
And my blinding agony broke free

But then you were there, with a fretting frown
A furrowed brow
And concern rippling across your face
As you bent down and we embraced
Your eyes wide with worry, sparkling with tears of empathy

And we both cried
Over lost memories and wasted time
Our faces drenched with regret
And the fateful ruby thread weaved a gossamer web between us
That may never be untangled.

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Falling: A Short Poem

4/9/2020

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​By an Anonymous Submitter
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It was only a dream.
But it felt so real.
It felt as if my soul left my body
leaving me alone, stranded in the deep
dark, black hole of my thoughts.
It felt as if the woman who my mother raised me to be
was now a shell I could only hide under
& allow me to pretend I was a gift, not a curse.
It felt as if time was ticking away my mere existence
and my life was slowly being chipped away.
It felt numb and raw, like there was nothing left of me except for
my mangled fragments of consciousness.
It felt as if I wasn't real - that instead I was a mere piece of someone else
I could feel the tremors of my heart
as I plummeted down that cliff - oh, that terrible cliff.
I awoke, covered in sweat and tears
& couldn't shake the feeling that
maybe it wasn't a dream.
but I like to tell myself that it was.
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