Blow like creepy howling winds
Flow like torrential pouring rains
Freeze as a thunderstruck disaster
Shake in cynical mirthless laughter.
Whatever it takes to acknowledge pain fully
Like a course of isoniazid to kill sly ol’ LTBE
For Repressed emotions lurk out in sinister ways
Creating a bitter, useless self-pitying prey.
And so I embrace my failures and my pains
I need them to appreciate my gains
And though I may howl and I may shake
I rise from my ego sleep a little more awake.
Ambreen 2017