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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