-Dhruv Gupta

Ever since I was a child my greatest talent and aid was
my imagination. No matter how much I would like things
to be different, I was never strong or brave.

I was always trapped behind locked doors and sky-high
walls and so my thoughts carried me away, through
countless other worlds where only I had all the keys.

But I have grown weary of my travels, for I have
travelled so far that I have lost my way, and with it
myself.
And so I wonder often who I am, and what I’ve become. I
look in the mirror and I see a ghost that shies away from
looking back at me. I look upon the people around me,
the few who still love me, to whom I have nothing left to
offer.
You see, reality is fate’s anchor and arrow, and no
matter how strong you think you are or how wild your
imagination can be, you can never break free of fate’s
anchor, nor outrun its arrow.
I tried, and for a while it let me believe that I won, but
once the line between what is real and what is not
begins fading away, you will lose yourself, and you’ll
have to look in too many worlds to find it again.

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Raw Whispers Magazine, edition 2.

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