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FACES IN A BOOK


While you run and you try to hide
Plug your ears and chew down your pride
While the bell keeps tolling and reaches you still
Piercing your ears. Oh! So shrill!

Oblivious to your pain, deaf to that noise
The world sees your life at a brilliant poise.
Eyes hide envy, eyes hide gall
Waiting to see your glorious fall.

Thousands of ‘friends’ with faces in a book
Where your perennial smile they all mistook
For the happy heart that you wish you could be
Shutting out the noise, the light to see.

But your heart is always lonely and the noise tires you out
And out of that emptiness happy pictures sprout
Like a bed of flowers hiding roots so dry
Yet they’d all look brighter the louder they’d cry.

Aritra Charkrabarti

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