Stigma

Sorry for not responding no more

She don’t care about anything

Reached a dangerous saturation point

A sole that decayed inside

Being every one’s rock

She forgot to be her own

With a smile she greeted her troubles

Lent a ear to the needed

Became a voice of the unheard

She was a ray of rainbow everyone craved to be

But something has changed

She stopped smiling

The monotonous reality

Drained her off her radiance

She sees the glass half empty than full

Just like her delusional existence

Present but meaningless

In a vacuum of thoughts

That sucked her dreams along

Inner freedom of imprisonment

Is a storm that is brewing

A lie to many achievements

A week being

Stuck in a rat race

Prey to incomplete conversations

Broken silence finally felt like home

When she needed her closest the most

She locked herself from the world

Hid the truth that she was in stage 2 cancer

The sad part was the no one never noticed

She looked inhuman

Her hair started falling out

So did her strength to fight death

But with hope she took her every breath

She drifted along

Just like clouds

Never stopping

Only to return as a storm

Capturing everyone’s tears at her funeral

She finally mastered the art of balance

Between holding on and letting go.

She won this race of life

To becoming a person worth remembering

And to be looked up to

The sarcastic life looked upon her broken soul

Bid her farewell to a eternity of peace

As it was all that she deserved ..

© G.V Raghavasree