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Saturday, 30 July 2022

The World-Resembling Fire ____ AKSHR


The World-Resembling Fire

 

Live, love, laugh

 

as a room on fire

 

with life, with love, 


with laughter.

 

Not even the smoke 

will know what has happened.

II

The happy ending

 

Live, love, laugh

 

The happy ending is not 

the end of the story. 

It is the beginning 

of another story

and another after that, 

and so on.

All love stories 

have the same plot:

We meet for the first time. 

We fall in love,

or we don’t. 

We part or we stay together.

We are happy, 

or not so happy. 

We go our separate ways,

or we don’t. 

Life goes on. 

Or doesn’t go on, 

but then it does again

in a different way

 at a different time 

with different people 

in a different place

with different stories.

III

The Smell of it

 

Live, love, laugh

 

I was taught

when I was young.

They said it’s what you do. 

But how does one 

live, love and laugh?

 

How does one breathe 

in the smell of death? 

—and not die?

How does one live, 

love and laugh?

AKSHR




 

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