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Poetry

I AM

Ashwini Sannake

Be a question mark? that isn't afraid of asking the uncomfortable questions or curious to possibilities

Be an exclamation mark and make yourself heard no matter what!

Be a comma to celebrate your resilience that breathes life into sentences,

Be an apostrophe’ like a magical thread binding words asserting its possession.

Be the “Quotation Marks” and highlight the parts of your soul that hold significance for who you truly are

Be an ellipsis that takes pride for being a constant work in progress…

Be an ampersand that holds together the yin & yang of your existence

Be all kinds of punctuation marks and stand for who you are.

And me?
Well, I have found solace in a semicolon;
That could have ended the sentence but instead decided to take a pause.

A pause; not an end.
Deciding to go on, no matter what.
A choice that I would make no matter how many times I'm pushed to the rut;

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