Trapping

Trapping Like a mouse’s punishing scream in that damn trapping device Like Charlotte’s web weaving her undying loyalty thousand threads over Like Juliet vowing her love, drinking every drop of the fatal potion Like a predator creeping behind his prey at the turn of every dark corner Unfailingly we all fall victims to life’s trapping Constructing your own traps as meeting your destiny The dichotomy of inevitability Sucking us into this dark hole of swirling water Reducing life into a singular circular spiraling motion A trap of no turning back As life turns its back on us Attachment, life’s excess baggage Contains bliss and pain, in unequal measures But then what’s living without heart shattering In thousand pieces, every so often and how can you call yourself a soldier without shedding a few bloods? Or even a few tears? Like a drowning child exhausting every limb of her body Hastily catching the precious breath when her head, for mere seconds Above the water Before sinking and spiraling down further Between every movement of sinking…she touches eternity