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Anxious, chained at the barrier hither
Musings take hold of my existence
Unsure whether I am an individual or a species
Do I contain contradictions in these multitudes

In a universe beyond my window
As the Lady of Shalott confronts a curse
That created and destroyed humanity
The galaxies in my mind collide

Is this a paraphernalia of conquests or cobwebs
Stories that now seem tales from Aesop's fables
Is it a plague or mere laziness of an empty mind
But is the mind really empty or just plagued by dirt

I watch an old shadow beside the creek
Beneath my skin blood crawls being aware
The hooded shadow claims to be death
But it laughs at me in cacophony

"Haven't you been close to me so often
When you were a kid who couldn't stop taking risks
Were you afraid of me then?
No. You sought pleasure in defying me

And here after so many years you shiver
I enjoy your helplessness but not much
Powerless without my contender consumed by life
Yet the signs of life are dismal enough

Don't you see I am death and you are life
But we are quite similar to each other
We are the laws that create and sustain each other
You knew all this when you were a kid

Do humans grow up to be nascent
Ah! How they create and control technology
The universe pours them wine of illusive power
Alluring beliefs that none so great ever existed

I see, you too are getting filled
Up to the brim by this vicious trap"
Death mocks at my shallowness
Leaving me dumbstruck and bewildered

And here I had ceased to remember
That I exist as the smallest atom of magic
In the universe of continuity until one day
I need to defy my existence when I perish

But my musings would remain
Echoing through the wind 
Surpassing lands with enormous waves
Merging into Aurora from the peaks

The worlds of illusions and realities
With the contradictions that make them
To realize that death is not fatal
It is the celebration of a journey

Perhaps Napoleon would have thought this too
Or Ashoka would have embraced truth once he knew
I wonder if these thoughts are the echoes
Of great minds that had once existed here forth

Reaching out to my insomniac mind
When the frequencies collide with my insanity
There is a celebration in another galaxy
But I will join it once I have celebrated this carousal

I exist at both sides of the window
At twilight my sword clings on the edge
I start, I end, I continue till infinity
I am an individual, I am my species

I die, 
I am born, 
I live to die,
I die to live..

May 11, 2020
Winner: HM
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