Poem: When we are ourselves

In an endless blue, I hold up a red balloon;

                    waiting for things to happen.

We lost something familiar in the connection,

as the nervous river of thought feeds our bodies,

in cloaks of invisibility we wish to hide.

Hands that used to wipe away our tears,

when there were monsters under our beds,

                     have grown away from us.

So we learnt to be unmoved and untouched.

We hide our vulnerability under our cloaks.

How can we ignite a life into a new heart

                     and call it an accident?

Then we are tragedies,

crashing one over another.

We are not a definition of life.

We collect pieces and dots of eternal summer rays

and flickering shadows of raindrops.

How those insignificant stains

make a much more meaningful picture.

A single drop can colour a glass full of water;

                      before it melts away;

– that’s what happens when we are ourselves.

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