A glass of Poison

Rupesh Ranjan
1 min readMar 25, 2020

Thing with a
Poisoned glass Is that
The moment your lips
Touch the glass
It does not matter, if
You drink all the elixir in world
You are still going to die.

You can choose not to drink,
Not sip from the glass anymore.
But, you will still die,
You’ll die of thirst.

If you are
looking for survival,
Survival lies beneath
Replacing the glass, with
A fresh new glass

All these days ,
I hung on to you,
Killing myself.
Turns out,
You were my venom.
Today,
I am free,
I am alive,
I am breathing.

I have a new
Glass in my hands.

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Rupesh Ranjan

I am driven to write, because it’s the only way to keep things alive. Everything else fades away, dies eventually, not words though.