Learn all the languages,
Decipher every cipher,
Get through every hedge maze,
Unfazed and head held high.
But, a glance at the ocean
Its cerulean waves and the foamy sheen
With spots of turquoise-married-teal,
Holding the rich navy blue of its depths hostage below
And, you're nothing.
Deep breaths trying to pacify the shackled creature,
A creature that tries hard to outgrow its cages
And a twin that is thirsty for all secrets and stories abound
The clock's tickin' in time with these rapid exhales.
There's people around you,
Confident steerers of their vessel
Their compass is always pointing true north
While your weary compass spun in circles,
Searching for its true course.
This mind of yours?
Claustrophobia runs deep within
Knowledge seems to travel everywhere
But its scent hardly lingers in your senses.
Never and not,
Yearning to ever and ought
Histories and mysteries that color Earth's veins
But not every trail is uncovered,
Shrouded in your mind's shadows.
Never enough, not enough,
If you don't learn them all,
Don't see them all,
Don't feel them all,
Empathy runs cold and stale, my dear,
Time is running short.
Enough is a funny word,
It doesn't mean a thing without its neighbors
Maybe that's why it is your biggest insecurity,
A void unknown, swallowed by the clamoring crowd.

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A budding writer's collection
PoetryJust a bunch of poems written as and when I feel to write them