The Last Breath

Sparkling eyes of A sixteen-year-old

Who had a heart molded with love but alone, she ran & ran from the world so cold

Shivering from every inch of her bone.

Why today as she thought

What about the fights she fought,

With her, with them, with someone or the other. How could she face that aching heart of mother.

The dream she was dreaming

Vanished in a second,

The path which fate was choosing Left her thoughts vacant.

As she was drenched in her fearful past, she lived every moment like it was her last, she always knew what pain was

But still hoped to be normal again

But as hope started to cover

With blanket of misery & grief,

The last thought that came to her mind

Was opening to loved ones for a moment brief.

As she layed in her shallow grave

With soil damp with tears & rain,

But the hope from the world she craved Was buried under her fears & pain.

- Durva Naik