The bird that existed inside me wouldn't sing with me. The bird that existed inside me wouldn't stay with my soul. One day I stole its soul and placed that in the darkest corner of my world. The only way that the bird connected to its soul was through the song that it had learned from its soul. Hearing the same song, the bird arrived near its soul in search of it. And the moment it arrived, I began ripping off my bones one after the other and planted them around it. And once it was caged completely, the lights were lit. The bird and my soul were on a stage, and its soul was outside the cage made of my bones. The only way that bird could reach its soul was by teaching all the songs it had learned till now, to my soul too. It has been teaching me all the songs it knows to my soul since then. It has been singing with my soul since then. But it never looks at my soul while singing. All it stares at is its own soul, which seeks it too.

- Akshay Vasu


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