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Loneliness
Akshat Anand
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I’m stranded out at sea

Like a helpless Crusoe.

The crushing weight of the bounding main
Bearing down upon me, isolating me further,

Unrelenting suffocation.

Every moment, I sink deeper still,

Nothing around for miles
Only the expanse of an unwavering emptiness,

A deluge of desolation.

Sunlight eludes my reach
And so am I depowered.

Can’t even see me anymore,

I have become part of the abundant blue.

I flail my arms around,
Hoping to feel something, someone; anything, anyone.

But only the cruel reply of despair stares back in my face.

Then I realise, there is no saviour out there.

Only me.
I give up fighting the sea

And let my body go free.

I embrace it and float to the surface,
Crushed by the sea no more.

Now I’m flying alone.

An unfettered soul, free to go wherever I want
No more do constraints hold me

From reaching the Horizon.

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