༎ ᴀʟᴅᴇʙᴀʀᴀɴ ༎

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Your footsteps left imprints on the mud.
I thought that if I took after them,
I wouldn't get hurt.
A sense of security-
your vestiges always brought.
Any attempt at infiltration
and all my insecurities were caught.

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Into a forest
that was never sown,
I followed the footsteps
that I thought were my stepping stones.

Not further into the woods
had I gone,
when I realised each latter step was more non-buoyant-

than the former....
          my feet sunk deeper...
                    the mud's grip
                               became tighter..

and there were no stepping stones in sight any further.
Cause all the time I had been following the trail,
I had been in a quagmire.

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But for how long would I be your follower?-
Even if I am surceased by the lead,
I will keep on walking further.

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Each stride a morsel,
the ground a pot;
the more it'll be hardened,
the more I walk on.

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And there it is,
the mucky area I had trodden
was now a path
that I created on my own.
Covered were the edges in garden,
my barren land
-now sown.

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Sometimes in life you have to walk a path less taken,
so be luminescent
with your eyes so bright,
that the light at the end of the tunnel is your own reflection.

-
Be the torch bearer at your own marathon
and be the Pleiades of your own Aldebaran.

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Published- 24rth December 2020

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Published- 24rth December 2020

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