By: Anagha Vinay
You remember those mirror mazes which used to be impossible as a kid?
Everywhere you look, you see yourself, like you are a culprit of your own doings
You cannot escape yourself
Why do you have to?
Sometimes, we keep making mistakes, until they aren’t mistakes anymore
They emerge as the monster inside us
There is a monster inside all of us
Have you met yours?
They are scary, like you don’t know yourself anymore
They are your blistered emotions, groping in the abyss to be healed
If at an instance you let them out, they scream and wail for their liberty
And then what?
They leave you, they leave you in silence
And your ears ring in the silence that they have left
In the silence of the sick walls surrounding you, leaving it to you to tear them down.
You walk ahead, you walk alone, you walk in pain, you walk in the growing silence
It is not just silence
It is the lack of sound, the lack of music, and melody
You walk in solitude, great lengths, lost in great thoughts
Or rather, greatly lost in insignificant thoughts
The thoughts keep crashing like waves on the sea shore
The thoughts keep crashing like waves on the sea shore, reckless, relentless, ruthless
They are nothing but the passing time
Everything feels as transient as your footprints on the sand
Erased
And the waves keep receding as you walk ahead, and the waves keep receding as you walk ahead.
Made me cry