KshounishBhadra-Bhaduri,
the agony of my clear, crystalline heart
which i daub with the echoing tears of our release
i stumbled away from our destiny
the design of my soul plundered by your behest
a revelation i reached far too late
the interminable timing of your laugh,
once a thing of grace, now a rasp
as the cadence quickens alongside my pulse
the pitch will ascend
for the reprise
with a surge
as i scanned the last of the shards
shattered under your heel
i fell upon, by chance,
a token that passed through your filter,
a declaration of tenderness and love,
a totem that you forgot to consume,
a memento of our ill-fated venture,
a blissful souvenir of what could have been,
a hopeless reminder that trying to thrive, trying to stand, believing that we will prevail
only opens the role of the fool to be fulfilled.
I am an 11th-grade student at Alcuin School. I am a person of many skills, but not very many talents. In my brief period on Earth, I have become an Eagle Scout, a Black-Belt in Taekwondo, a guitarist/vocalist, and a writer. My interests lean towards the realm of videogames, STEM, logic, and creativity, and towards solving puzzles in the broadest sense conceivable. To finish the oft-incomplete saying, I’m a “jack of all trades, master of none, but better than master of one.” I aspire to be an architect when I enter the workforce, building solutions to the problems of the world.