Was it something she said,
or something I realized
that I lost my grip on the plot
and fell
and kept falling
till I reached the concrete
and lay there, shattered?
Of everything I knew about me,
I did not know I was brittle.
Now, the flecks just lay splattered.
The silence weighs on me,
paralyzing any struggle,
and they all watch me
break
and remain broken.
If only I could fix myself,
pull every piece together,
maybe, and just maybe,
they won’t condemn me to their sighs.
It is tiring.
It is tiring
to exist in this dichotomy
between my state and my will.
I rummage through the rubble,
while a nagging question
remains suspended in air.
And, like it, I wish I could say
even I am hanging by a thread;
but, like it, I continually ask
Where is my centre?
Yeha, Whatever 
I like the category 🙂
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Your politeness is suffocating. Go home.
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Statement 1: Home is where the heart is.
Statement 2: My heart is with me here.
It follows from statement 1 and 2 that I’m already home. Your suggestion is redundant; not to mention, useless.
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I loved it. The struggle between the state and the will always fascinates me. This exercise reminds me of that bit in ‘Before Sunrise’ where Celine and Jesse ask a poet on the road to write a poem with the word “milkshake” in it.
PS: You’re awesome.
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This exercise was inspired from exactly that scene. 🙂 I am so glad to know you’ve watched that movie!
Thank you! 🙂
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Me too!
Please tell me you’re a fan of the trilogy?
🙂
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Of course I am. Goes without saying. (I still have to watch Before Midnight.)
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Please do. It ends the trilogy well.
Team Jesse or Team Celine?
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I didn’t think of it that way. I didn’t know there was a ‘for or against’ opinion regarding this matter. I saw them as complementary to each other. But if I had to choose who I identify with, it’d be Celine.
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I agree, they do complement each other. There was a debate because of the third movie.
#WIN
#TeamCeline
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I finished watching the last part of the trilogy today. I loved it. 🙂
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I got a sense of closure, even though ending is so open ended.
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