The Fractures Within!

 The Fractures Within!

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Hanging on to life

till death whispers my name,

This fragile thread is the existence's claim.

Breath is the connection between life and death!

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Ego crept in, a shadowed tide,

Severing bonds, pushing light aside.

Its edges sharp, its whispers loud,

Blinding the heart, making the soul proud

Where bridges stood once now chasms grew,

Arrogance settled, eclipsing the view.

Humility silenced, its voice made still,

Self-righteousness armored, killing the growth!

Dividing souls became thy creed,

Flattery feeding the hollow need.

Each boastful act, each prideful word,

Turned love distant, made silence heard.

The gaze of loved ones drifted away,

In the mirror, a stranger chose to stay.

The weight of choices, heavy, profound,

Echoed in silence, no solace found.

Now I stand at the edge of despair,

A reckoning whispers through the air.

Can these frayed threads be stitched once more,

Or must I rise from the ashes of before?

Each fall a lesson, each wound a guide,

To cast away the emptiness inside.

For in this undoing, hope may ignite,

A soul should be reborn from the depths of night.

A newer self spreading awareness and light.

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73Vishika Chhetri-Sharma, Somnath Chakraborty and 71 others