''Through Fickle Life with You'' KH 3/26/19

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“Through Fickle Life With You” Khatoon Hazara |||12:20pm, Tue. March 26 2019

I’ve gone down many a broken paths

Hoping to maybe find my way back

But see, I’ve never enjoyed being apart of the “crowd”

I find solace in the stinging silence, the breath of all the trees’, of all the leaves’

There, within the writhing crowd full of muffled shouts and the hereditary bouts of paranoia

Hysteria

I have never belonged in any of the categories set forth upon my being

Never have I conformed, wrought are the rusted woes; for they have truly done wrong

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It’s hard playing with fire, isn’t it

Constantly afraid of getting burnt

But you...

You’re never afraid, and I know of this because I have seen it; and it shines brighter still, since that first day, or first week… or first… month

I’d never seen you cry, for if ever I had, then I must’ve blocked it out of my memory because I don’t like when you’re sad or mad, or anything that required tears to be shed from your eyes

But Life is a fickle foe, friend

It does not deserve our tears, for we are above anything and everything that negatively impacts us

We do not hide, we do not need to

Perhaps we are immune that way

Perhaps we aren’t built that way anymore

Perchance those that have will be the last of their kind

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed this piece is itself 'fickle'. The protagonist states they dislike being apart from the crowd but then espouses finding "solace in the stinging silence" because they have "never belonged in any of the categories set forth upon my being". The protagonist also refuses to be sad despite admiting being afraid.

[FaeryQueen]

thank you for the kind observation