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ALIVE

Writer's picture: Lala RukhLala Rukh

By: Iman Waqas


Close your eyes and listen

To the blood thrumming in your veins

The soft puff of breath after every exhale

Feel each caress of the fluttering lashes on

your cheekbones


The drumming of the heart

Which keeps pace with every emotion

Sometimes as fast as the Coruh river

Sometimes in a slow languorous manner

Their complexities still so foreign to it


Listen to the whispered secrets of the wind

As it serenades you with their gentle music

Taste the coolness of the fallen raindrops

Revel in the dewy petrichor it leaves behind


Savor the flushed warmth of your skin

In winter or after a particularly passionate

discussion

The exuberant vitality in your eyes

When you were wonderstruck over something

beautiful

Or animated over the most ordinary of things


All these overwhelming sensations

Blast with renewed fervor each time

Reminding how they are a blessing

Not a given right to everybody

Prompting us to understand the true definition

of being alive



(Image from here.)


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