-Aritri Anushka Ahsan

What are we but empty vessels

enriching ourselves along the way,

Painting our ecstasies with borrowed colours,

Soaking in other’s suns in our undivided skies?

What are we but revelers of the same ship

with divergent goals but convergent destinations,

with contrasting euphoria but resembling symphonies?

What are we but the two corner strings of a guitar-

poles apart but equally essential in creating harmonies?

What are we but living in this song called life

discovering its genre at every step of our way,

getting lost in its vibrant tragedies

only to find ourselves again

What are we but insignificant crumbs-

meaningful only when left behind in someone else’s box

What are we but insignificant crumbs-

Yearning for touch, warmth, gasping for breath

What are we but springs and winters,

Dawns and dusks,

Moons and the suns- all rivaling within ourselves,

mutually exclusive oxymorons

What are we but the Universe itself

What are we?

Writer    : Aritri  Anushka  Ahsan , Rajuk Uttara Model College, Class-12