September 13, 2025

Now And Then

 


Now and then,

I want to lock away my heart,

and discard the noise of my restless thoughts.

The thoughts that whisper truth,

yet tremble beneath the weakness of this faint heart.


I want to learn the souls around me,

trace the stories written in their eyes,

but each time I reach out,

their silence turns into a blade,

and the cut it leaves bleeds deeper than I can mend.


I try to rise,

to stitch myself together with hope,

but my hands shake,

and the threads break before they hold.

No matter how much I reach for light,

I fall back into the shadows I once tried to escape.


Now, I wander through a fog of my own making,

a place where my reflection hides from me.

I search for myself in the mirrors of others,

yet all I see is a stranger wearing my skin.


Perhaps I buried myself long ago,

inside this unfair loop,

where days repeat like a broken record,

and nights echo louder than my breath.

Here I stand,

alive in body,

but dead in spirit,

drifting endlessly in this living hell.


 Sonam Phuntsho (D1CSN)

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