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Once, this world created in me, A box of a mind. With dark corners And scary rooms with unopened doors, Never talked about, Never answered, But always, always thought about, Always, always questioned. Days and nights spun so fast, it seemed. Weary me, in that box, Always ran, Callousness pushing me from behind. Then, one day, I stopped running, The world still pushed, but I slipped away. The burden of unanswered doubts, Seemed too heavy, Over my perfectly drawn square shoulders. I let go. The squares, I bent, Into circles and spheres and myriad magical shapes. The windows smelt damp, creaked loud and ghastly, The doors stuck hard to the walls. The Walls I saw tall and high, Had paintings I never noticed till then. They had the hues and lines, Of broken dreams, and unfelt love, Incomplete poems and unwritten stories, Dull and lifeless, yet they stared, Sharp and staunch at my guilty eyes. And memories twirled like hurricanes, Twisted my body and soul, Took me to shores I lived for long, Yet haven't known them ever well. Stinking with guilt, I realised, Those moments of machinery monotony, I forced myself over and again through, To stay a part of this vicious crowd. Not any more, I decided, I was not ready to give up. The starved me, could no longer hold, And pushed the creaky windows open, And as The shine glided into my room, I saw, for once, the glow I missed everyday. The art that scared me then, Now began melting, into rainbow colours. The deafening noise now vanished, Into the the sound of rain dances. How meek I felt, I forgot for a moment, Thrusting the hard doors out, I stood there, drenched, Lost in the pouring love. As I looked back, I saw, The box I was in, crashing down, Into a thousand pieces. The fury of the rushing waters, Seeping through the dreary corners, That held all my pain and fear and guilt. The windows and doors forgotten, The scary strokes faded, And all that came out, Was the magic of The Rainbow Shine. And so My Friend, please don't wait, like me, Long times lost, timid in the box. For the windows and doors are windows and doors, And not the rails of a locked cellar. And before the walls drew demons for you, Break free, Soak in love, The kind that seeks the real You.
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