POETRY | PAIN | TRAUMA
We’ve Been Shattered Enough, What’s One More?
The heart knows: a poem
I’ve looked at enough scars
to know that black and blue skin of yours
carries a secret along,
it has a story to tell.
we’ve just met,
but i can look at all your scars
and i watch you look at mine.
silence echoes,
you wanted to ask me
about the fresh wound
in the chambers of my heart,
and i craved to talk to your bruises.
but we stood quiet.
i wanted to run away from this world,
you wanted to run away from reality
i wanted to run away from my past,
you were too scared to run towards the future.
you looked into my eyes,
and I stared back.
I stared back,
and found my old friends there,
grief and guilt.
“you’re one of us”,
i smiled with tears in my eyes.
time stopped,
all we wanted to do
was survive.
it was cold and quiet,
i could hear your loud thoughts
and you could hear my heart pounding.
i skipped a heart beat,
and gave to you my hand to hold.
“we’ve been shattered enough…”
i told my heart,
“what’s one more?”
- Pragya Chaturvedi
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