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One way To Live
Loneliness lingers,
like pain after a broken heart.
Loneliness expands,
like the sun’s beam on a warm day.
Loneliness shatters
every hope, every desire in your
tiny microcosm, bit by bit,
until you find it difficult to draw in air.
But loneliness empowers too.
It’s presumably a crusade to strengthen
your bones which were weakened
when you were roughly ruffled from the
wind blowing ashore and when your body
swayed in ungodly directions during the
high tides past sunset.
Loneliness helps you realize
that you need only your heart and only your
smile to make yourself happy.
You need to be lonely to know what it was
like to be surrounded.
You must stay lonely to learn what is it
like to embrace solitude, you must accept it
and let it grow on you.
You must do so until loneliness is not a
travesty. It’s a…
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Avantika Singhal /timidandvivid 