Areesha Elahi Poet Free verse

Heart Like Paper

A paper has thousands of words written on it
Some in bold, while some in brackets

What's written in bold captures the attention of the beholders
While what's written in brackets holds secrets that nobody knows 

It is only the author who's aware of those treasured secrets 
Only she can decipher the meaning of that language
As she found those words too sacred to not be penned down on paper

But here's the twist

Someone got hold of her secrets 
And decided to tear the paper off before someone else could read them
He said he was protecting your privacy

But in reality, it was his privacy that was in jeopardy
Because it was all him on the paper 
It is all still him she thinks about now and later

The pieces of that torn paper still reside somewhere
What's left on those bits is ink that trickles down slowly everywhere

You can tape the paper back together
But it's too fragile to keep itself together
It will tear into tinier pieces when you remember who tore it in the first place

Now imagine your heart being that paper

The words being your feelings
The bold ones being everything you expressed
The ones in brackets being everything you supressed 

And after the storm

The shattered pieces were the bits of your broken heart
The trickling ink was the tears running down your face

And well, the destroyer being that one person who still hasn’t rested his case!

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