For those Koi-s that didn’t risk their life to become a Dragon

I wonder what happened to that Koi

who feared hardship so much that

he came back from the waterfalls.

His soulmate and also his friends had turned

into a dragon by now,

but he stared down through his life in water,

its comfort and its certainty all flashed by before his eyes.

When he was at the height to cross upstream,

incertitude overclouded his vision;

feeling suffocated by the impending danger

of being in Kaleidoscope of an unknown abstract future.

Though for the first time,

his fins were used at its full potential.

Be it not for the glorious cause

that people celebrated as Success.

It was by his own volition, a judgment made by

an individual that stands firm, in the end.

Today if I can meet him, I will say

“Let them laugh at you resolution.

You may not become a Dragon

but become more than a dragon by heart,

as you stayed behind with your own people.”

Still, I know I can’t find you in today’s world.

For those like you, stay unsustainable in their life.

They became cocooned by the innumerable

mortifications that made them vulnerable.

A vessel stayed at the end of the day

with nothing that could be called Life!

by Saptarshi Bhowmick

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"I always loved the last sip of my tea_ just like how the last words come to me, I struggle much to get there." 

Coming from the outskirts of a town named Berhampore, Saptarshi strives more and more in his world of limited opportunities. Although he has been described as lethargic, he manages to find joy with his plentiful creations. His poetry and flash fictions have appeared in many international magazines and websites: 50+, The Rainbow Poems, Tofu Ink Art Press, The Antonym, Wingless Dreamers, Sparked Literary Magazine, MOIDA, The Compass Magazine, SeaGlass Lit, Aster Lit, Firefly_Archives, The Graveyard Zine, The Dried Review, Meadow Mouse, Overtly Lit and many more.

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