Weekly Selected Poems: Monalisa Parida

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

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In my brokenness
I uplift the burdened heart
In my loneliness
I comfort the abandoned
Because I have a soul
That is not lost in vanity.

In silence
Again and again
I find that
One of the things
That gives me
Soft – yet – firm
State of soul.

I become silent
And my eyes whisper
Into the jagged walls
The whispers echo
Jaded pain as my heart
Throb to bury
My spirit in sham bliss
People say nothing lasts forever
That is a silence I pursue.
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Copyright@Monalisa Parida