Upheaval

This was a poem I wrote for our college publication in my last year in college. I really like this because this was an outpour of heavy emotions I had long kept inside.

Conceit.

You are full of that.

You are Alexander the Great

The Achilles of your time

Yet only in your wild imagination.

Looking at your features,

I understand why…

 

Perhaps insecurity has engulfed you

But the truth can’t be concealed.

People asked me, “Why him?”

I remained silent.

 

You were beautiful and priceless in my eyes.

You were my inspiration to be the best that I

could be.

I cherished you like a fragile treasure

But it was all irrelevant to you.

 

With great disdain and ingratitude,

You insulted my beauty.

How dare you insult me after I give you

everything---

Everything until nothing was left of me?

Well, isn’t it you poor creature, who deserves

to be pitied?

 

For we were like the heavens and the earth…

I reigned the immaculate heaven

While the murky waters belonged to you.

All creation detested our union

Yet out of sheer stupidity and randomness,

We became one.

 

We lived in eternal bliss or so I thought

I was happy and I supposed you were too.

How naïve of me.

I heeded the call of all creation

Yet I couldn’t even fathom and hear your cry.

 

And like the swift flash of thunder,

You were gone.

 

I mourned for your loss.

All the heavens cried with me to consoling.

Yet I realized the heavens and the earth could

never meet at the horizon.

You cut our union for reasons only you know why.

 

I never blamed you.

Instead, I blamed my poor self.

I know so well and it was written that

The heavens could never come down to earth nor

earth rise to heaven.

 

But I tried.

I tried the impossible.

I made the unthinkable work.

But what did you repay me for my persistence?

Nothing.

Instead, you caused my heart to bleed even more.

 

But now I realized

Your loss doesn’t signify my death.

It only marks the start of more beautiful sunshines---

Of more beautiful days.

 

Goodbye and I hope…

Life treats you kind.

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Author's Note

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