I have bathed in my tears several times

Hoping to relieve my soul and wash away the pain….

I have broken and shattered my heart

to once and for all find a way to repair its core…

I have  a ‘to-do’ for every wakeful moment

so that I won’t wonder through the maze of my thoughts…

I have chattered gracelessly even when no one was listening

so that I won’t drown in the silence of my soul….

I have laughed out aloud without a gag…

Hoping to revive my worn out self 

But every time I ran faster…

Hoping to escape …

I found myself reaching just where

I began…

I was circling stubbornly…the circumference of life….

Believing it was ‘living’….

Only when I stepped into the light of the nucleus

And sat there unwaveringly

in the stillness and nothingness of the moment….

 I realized that no matter how long it had taken

I had finally reached my destination….

 And all I had to do was to stop running in circles….

Shreeja Mohatta Jhawar is a partner in Think Unlike Events where she  organises creative and life-style transforming workshops. She is also a freelance writer, web and graphics designer as well as a social activist who runs ‘Kritagya,’ a group aiming to serve old and destitute people. 

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