Poem: Dark Room

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Another day, another poem. This one is my latest piece, and also quite dramatic. I had been thinking for a long time on the core concept of this prompt: People. I was feeling like we are slowly losing the value and importance of people in our lives, embracing loneliness and driving away from relations has been more on the trend. This felt like a piece in my mind from a long time, and writing it down felt like venting out my emotions in my diary and was quite relaxing:



In a world full of people
The light goes out
It's silence for a moment
And then I hear shouts
But I can only hear them
Unable to see the faces and their expressions
For its total blackout

Someone bumps in me
'Oh sorry' I hear
I walk a few steps
And stamp a feet
'Hey watch out'
'Sorry' I voice out
I try to hold someone's shoulder
'Let go', and they run off
I fall back onto somebody
'Hey, watch out young lady' 
'I'm sorry, but I'm a gentleman'

I regain my balance and walk again
Careful not to get disbalanced again
Someone stamps my foot
'Ouch', I exclaim in frustration
'Oh, is it you' I hear a familiar voice
'Yes, its me, where are you'

Complete silence
I walk a few steps
And bump into a wall
'Hello', I call out
The voice bounces back
And hits me on the ear
it occurs to me then
That in a world full f lights
The people have gone out
And the world has ceased
Into a small dark room
And its a total blackout



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