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Lost in an Unforgiving Cloudburst

The gleaming sky had never been so agonizing,

The light felt as dark as the craters in my soul,
The heaven had suddenly dissipated from my delusions,

Felt that I was dwindling on each step that I took.

The sapling of hope was frozen from the snow of estrangement,
Dragging myself in the noxious blizzard that besiege me,

Reached the river that had numbed itself to hold us on,

Which cracked, plunging me to a crowd of bruised snowmen.

Looking at the shattered mourning faces,
I felt like lost inside a cursed enchanted fairy-tale,

Remembering the beam I once had
While we were summoning the glee to build them,

The destruction was catastrophic now.

Their eyes glaring into my crumbled heart

Asked me the cause for this unforgiving cloudburst,
Which made my mind a barren land.

Unable to answer, I swallowed the grief into my soul,
Who was trapped shrieking inside me.

My view blurred as my insides shredded over cold cheeks

My tears reflected the light from the window where the sun turned up,
Bringing back my senses and stopping me from drenching in an untold

story
Waking up, I felt like a deer rescued from being a bait.

My pillow felt like a wet bread,
I went to see the sunrise which had sown a seed of peace of mind,

My shoulders felt the growing of a new set of wings,
Which assured to take me to an elated fairy-tale ride.

Bhumika A
II PU “D”
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