Tirtho’s poem explores themes of disillusionment, memory, and the struggle to find truth amidst a fragmented inner landscape, exclusively for Different Truths.
My heavy lids open,
I see a mirage navigate
for a truthful pursuit
in the desert of my eyes.
In my thoughts,
I carry an obsession
of echoes drifting on a road
that’s got lost in a labyrinth of memories.
My shadow stares at me half-consciously
as if I am a stranger to it
A deformed pang yelps in my ears,
I feel a fractured hope limping.
The sinking sun
seems as big as my jaded heart,
It glows the brightest
before it sets off for a long journey
into another world.
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