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Soul Aches

- Syed Basha

Irrational ruminations about after life, when I am still alive…

Urge to cry without unnoticed, when I am crying deep within… Being brave enough, when I am living on the pieces of courage left within…

How can someone expect me to be their savior, when I’m finding my own…?

Hanging around, just because am supposed to…

When you see and nothing is visible, are you blind?

When you cannot quench the hunger after having eaten a bellyful, are you monster?

When everything around seems normal but not within, are you insane?

When you relate to a withered leaf, fallen on ground that is eventually be crushed by

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Isomeone, are you deprived? Should I be DEAD, when I am still ALIVE?

Is it just my corpse that I cater around to show off I am still in blood and flesh?

What? What? What did I get for being normal, when nothing is not actually?

How can I be happy, when nothing is permanent?

How can one call himself master, when everyone is just a slave?

My expression is never valued, so as my existence…

Let me jump into the pond hoping I am filtered as a twig… No joy in living does not mean no pain in dying…

JUNE 2020