I sit waiting for hours together
I know it's coming, coming soon
I can hear it, smell it, feel it
As my insides twirl in a nervous tune..
I wait till I can no more
Then I make the final dash
Hitting everything and everyone on the way
I don't even stop to nurse the deep gash..
My destination awaits patiently
Those little knobby eyes sneering
I shed the skin I had come with
Hurriedly rest before entering the ring.
And brace myself for the thundering blows
The noisy whirlwinds and dusty brown storms
I hold myself together tight
Lest I lose me in those shapeless forms.
It rides through with all the might
Not a soul can now stand in its way
If only one could see with open eyes
What a perfect mess of me there lay.
Pieces of me strewn about carelessly all around
Some sank, some floated, some just stranded
As I rise and survey the muddle
A drop of sweat my brow quietly added.
I watch as a wave cruelly washes it away
All that I had created was gone
Time has played its brutal joke again
One it has repeated since I was born.
I wash my dirty hands of my sins
Walk out hanging my head in shame
In the utopian hope of a better next time
With the exhausted belief, it will still be the same.
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