A Shadow Without a Body

A Shadow Without a Body

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To feel unreal is to drift through existence like a phantom-untethered from time, watching but never quite touching. Suspended between presence and absence, seen yet intangible. This collection of poetry navigates identity, survival, absurdity, and the spaces where reality blurs. With sharp imagery, haunting introspection, and darkly wry humor, A Shadow Without a Body unravels the myths of healing, the illusion of stability, and the pull between longing and detachment. These poems trace the weight of mental illness, the echoes of self-loss, and the quiet contradiction of wanting to disappear while yearning to be seen. Caught between waiting rooms and fogged mirrors, between recognition and erasure, between tethered and adrift-a life shaped by paradox, where certainty is a mirage and the only certainty is contradiction itself. A Shadow Without a Body is a testament to the unspoken, the unsaid, and the inexplicably strange. It does not promise answers-only the possibility that absence is not the end. That even in the silence between heartbeats, something lingers. That even in our worst moments, something resists disappearing.
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Madness

Mind is a wonderful thing.. it's something that makes us-humans, different from one another. We all have a nose,a mouth, two hands, two feet, two eyes, one head-it's the mind inside that head that makes a difference. It's the mind that decides our character, it decides our actions, it defines our life,it's our mind that makes us love or hate something or someone. People aren't all bad or all good.. they have a touch of both but it's the mind that tricks us into loving or hating a person. Most of the times we don't actually love a person, we love the image of the person that our mind creates based on our memories with that person & same goes for the hate as well, we have bad memories with a person, we have a bad image of the person which leads to us hating that particular individual. We don't see people for who they actually are, we don't see the world for what it actually is, we merely see the image of it that our mind has created, the world for us is nothing more than an illusion. Our own personal illusion.. What's funny is that no one's ever going to know your illusion-your world as it is for you.. Despite all of the brilliant illusions that our mind creates, mind itself is the greatest creation of the mother nature. Without mind-this great tool, there would've been no cell phones, no television, no books, no music, no love, no hate, no life. nothing! But in reality, the mind is but a twisted yarn of madness. Yet every mind is great in itself. And didn't they say..? "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness" -with love, Harika

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