PART NINE

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Being a writer comes with its pitfalls

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Being a writer comes with its pitfalls.
A person's entry and exit into our lives turn into words.

I promised myself I wouldn't write about you.
It seems as if all my works are tales of people who walked out of my life.
I never wished it would be the same with you.

I never wished sadness would dawn upon us,
That your exit would follow soon.

But I guess after all I am a mere writer,
with no control over fates twists and turns.

So like every other person you eventually walked away,
Leaving a shriveled, broken heart behind.

The broken heart had a strong will,
Determined to keep its promise.

A long struggle followed,
The broken heart trying to defy its nature,
Trying not to unleash its pain,
Trying not to turn you into a genesis of its melancholy.

Alas, the broken heart was proven weak,
It broke its promise.
It shaped you into another one of its stories.

- Simraan Bedekar

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