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Indifference
By Anupras Mohapatra
For centuries it’s been remarked
That silence leaves the most telling of marks
But as the times change and people adapt
a new weapon seems to have come around
It is just painful to feel silence where there once used to be sweet song
But it is deathly, to feel indifference where there was love and clear skies
The allure of a warming heart, the charm of quirk, a work of art
Could drive thy heart into delirium
But as songs go, nothing breaks like a heart
The sunshine gives way to rain, the skies turn jet black
Darkness chokes every living cell and the sledgehammer strikes the blow
Thy heart has cracked into a million little pieces
As the same starry eyes no longer seem to shine
As indifference has turned thy love into its shrine.