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Such is the colorful symphony of life

Where the brightest color can lie

and leave you astray

Some merge with one another

While others fade away

In the heart of success

Things get fallen in the pit

The ball eventually falls back

As hard as it was hit

In the end, I plead and cry

Oh prisoner, do you really know why?

In the midst of storms

that come without warning

Blurring predictability

And the boundaries they’d been carving

I found an urgent craving

To bring life to a standstill

Unfolding the knotted questions

And the burdens of going uphill

In that fleeting spell of time

Darkened streets found illumination

And though I halted for a while

It sowed the seed for reinvention

In the end, a longing sigh

Oh prisoner, do you really know why?

In the depths of the interlude

It came knocking on my door

As I digressed into excursions

Through the faces that it bore

Like a bird with all its’ feathers

Yearning to be set free

Revealing the unseen

The reality of a wilting tree

And showing all heart, it spoke to me

“Now you’ll make it”

In the end, an earnest vow

Oh prisoner, do you really know how?

As I sailed back along the changing tides

And the sun began to set

Melting away the snowy hills

And the eyes began to rest

All the lessons learnt came undone

And growth pointed towards the sky

Lighting a different slippery path

Taking us to a new high

For each journey comes with a million answers

And a million questions for the next

Until it knocks the wind out of you

And ends the struggles of an ongoing quest

In the midst of life, we are in death

Do you feel an instant regret?

And though I try to count till ten

Oh prisoner, do you really know when?

The writer has an MBBS from LMDC and has a penchant for arts, music and poetry. She can be reached at bushra_waraich_93@hotmail.com

Published in Daily Times, June 7^th 2018.