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Author: Obims Nikki

  • Loneliness

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    The loudness of this silence is deafening.

    This emptiness in me is frightening.

    Flanked by people and still by myself

    A lone book on this huge shelf

    A giant chasm between me and you

    With no bridge to get across through

    I smile at you with the brightness of stars in the sky

    And I retire to my room at night to cry

    I take long strolls to feel like I’m part of this world

    Talk to people to convince myself this is my homeworld

    “I’m not an alien.” I say to me

    “They’re all like me.” I lie to me

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    Listen. Can you hear the silence?

    Do you see how it stares at me in defiance?

    You know, its funny how we’re not lonely all alone

    How the number of lonely people has grown

    My loneliness tried to crumble my being but it’s amusing

    Me reinforcing the cement on my walls with sad music

    We spent a lot of time together and now we share a closeness

    Again, funny how the one who saves me from this loneliness is my loneliness

    A companion close to me 24/7

    Made this confinement a safe haven

    He’s not so bad when you get to know him

    You just have to get used to the pale and grim

     

  • Bloody Cloak

    Bloody Cloak

    She has been keeping it in,
    Hard as it has been,
    The sword she wields against those tearing her apart,
    The cloak she uses to keep warm against the cold attacks.

    She’s been keeping it safe and reassuring herself,
    A reminder that no matter what they say she’s not someone else,
    Her most priced and most valued fortune,
    One she handled with utmost caution.

    In darkness and cold you appeared,
    Along with what she most feared.
    Without thought or remorse you ripped her cloak off,
    Even as she tried defending in fear and shock.

    You took her fortune, feeling no rue
    Took her dignity and ran her through.
    Left her in the mud dejected and bitter,
    I’ve never seen sweet and innocence leave any faster.

    Up she stood feeling the blood seep and flow,
    But, she will never let it show.
    Gently, she cleaned up and wore a smile,
    Wondering why the world was so hostile.
    She promised to only cry when she’s alone,
    She’ll only portray the image of a Queen on throne.

    She never imagined the first time will be so cruel,
    But she’ll always wear her smile like the perfect jewel

  • THE MIRAGE OF TIME

    They say time entails 3 elements – the past, the present and the future. But does the present really exists?

    The present is like any other mirage known to man. The present is that pool of water found in the middle of the road on a wicked sunny day. Just a façade.

    When we look at an object, it takes the brain a few nanoseconds to translate to us what the object is. Likewise, when a friend is talking to us it takes the brain the same nanoseconds to process the sound and relate to us the meaning.

    These examples indicate the fact that the brain, though super-fast, takes time to process what the eyes have seen before giving us the information held within. Knowing fully well that time passes before the brain finishes its processing, it is suitable to say that the present only exists before the processing, and by the time of recognition, time already called it “past”.

    The present is one nanosecond, which is very negligible. It is just like the thin line between the sea and the sand of the beach, an illusion. Time only has 2 elements, The Past and The Future. The present is insignificant and a fallacy.

    As humans, we’ve been told that all we have to do is learn from the past and act towards the future. But when and how do we learn from the past before we act in the future?

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