Silence Knows

Scars

Have you ever felt that you are in open air and still struggling to breathe?
As if you got none when life promised you a second chance.
As if the life you have lived all day was a beautiful illusion,
And now you are standing in the middle of nowhere.
There is darkness all around you.
Your eyes have taken a bit too long to adjust to darkness,
For maybe they are in hope to be in light soon.
You badly want it to be a dream,
Even when you know that the beads of sweat on your forehead are no lie.
You are dying to be in light again,
To feel the sun warm your bare back.
But all you feel is cold, desperation,
An urge driving you to the pit,
Where you forget the line ruling sanity.
There is no water around you,
But you feel like you'll drown
You know how to swim,
But you just want to sink down at the moment.
And there is air, but your lungs have had enough.
It's amidst a struggle to choke or choke not.
This puzzle is a greater ordeal,
Than plucking out the petals for deciding if you are in love
It's like screeching though a vacuum-
You want to scream out loud,
But the voice travels nonewhere beyond your head
Doesn't it feel naked to travel across a hallway-
With scores of eyes scanning your dressed up self?
So it does.
Like a thousand knives stabbing you altogether.
So stop bad mouthing about my robes and sleeves,
For you are oblivious to the scars underneath.

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