She

She has been skillfully crushing her intense

Pain, somewhere down the dark burrow

that resides passively in her soul until today.

She doesn’t want to fool herself

Not anymore. She doesn’t want to go to KFC

Eat nice food with an irritated mind

Then to Westside and shop until she

Forgets what made her mad tonight

She’s decided to confront it now

Hence, the next moment questions

what it is that she’s running away from,

in the name of not hurting/offending

Others, those who don’t even matter

And deeply unsettling herself.

It has been affecting her psyche

And physic that her body isn’t

Now ready to compensate for her

Overthinking and over-caring nature

Listen to me carefully

No one, nobody

Gives damn

Whether

You live

Or die.

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Raeesa Usmani

Dr. Raeesabegam Usmani is an academic, researcher, translator, and poet-writer from the Western Ghats of India. She works as an Assistant Professor at NMIMS University, Hyderabad, India. She writes to unwind her troubled mind.

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