Shield!

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I would crawl back in my cocoon

Shielding myself from the rest

Worried more of other's thoughts

But, not put myself to test

Weakness, I keep to myself

Potraying an image that's not I

Start living in duality

Wary of the snoopy eye

The inhibitions, Can I shed

The false image, Can I tear

The reactions, Can I unhook

The naked truth, Can I bear

I can shield, I can cover

There's nowhere, I can run

An affirmative to the epochal questions 

Life is sorted, and done

The unflinching move to do the dare 

The penchant to break that shield

The sublime beauty of the emerging self 

An unmeasurable yield!

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Final week to B school....

7 more days

The friends will finally meet

All in a frame, 

Worked into a frenzy

An excitement, none can beat

The chance to add that fiery brand

Long cherished and dear

The odyssey is the enlivener

Game for the fun filled year

A heavy billowed heart, 
Calling family a bye

The cheerful greet, The sweet embrace 

Repairs the melancholy

Crafts the relationship pie

Hand in Hand, we will march
And in chorus we will sing

The pledge to back each is the totempole

Apprehensions get a ding

A deal to keep the flame alive
To walk the sinuous wire

Few bottlenecks might exist 

But we will wade through the mire

The end beckons, 

And we cruise on

The resplendent orange flame bombards the sky

Signalling a new dawn....

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