{"id":90843,"date":"2021-06-26T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90843"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:52:31","slug":"hour-4-tomorrow-the-next-chapter-would-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-4-tomorrow-the-next-chapter-would-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: \u201cTomorrow, the next chapter would begin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am alive, and I am breathing, my wounds are misleading<\/p>\n

I am neither hurt nor injured, neither deterred, nor hindered<\/p>\n

I am serving my purpose, just the way rain must pour, the river must flow, and fire burn and crackle<\/p>\n

This shackle,<\/p>\n

Is only mine, and I will not carry it forward<\/p>\n

These chains are only mine, and this pain will not move onward<\/p>\n

My daughter will grow and bloom, in a world that isn\u2019t born yet<\/p>\n

and if I must die to birth it, I will not forget,<\/p>\n

why I was born<\/p>\n

this fight will die with us and if I must die to let another be born free,<\/p>\n

I am a sea,<\/p>\n

of martyrs who win the war when they die,<\/p>\n

so why not?<\/p>\n

I am the dam, I am the bridge and I will chip away at myself to let the tomorrow\u2019s river flow<\/p>\n

You know, the future we fight for is so beautiful that being a mere step towards it,<\/p>\n

Is often enough<\/p>\n

So I am neither maimed, nor hurt<\/p>\n

I am the desert,<\/p>\n

That will revert,<\/p>\n

And spring if she should grin,<\/p>\n

Knows,<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow the next chapter would begin”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From Jaishree Misra’s “Ancient Promises”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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