What’s Your Pattern?

 

Hey reader! Welcome back to Versebound . I am busy these days in preparing for my entrance examination, so I won't be able to write book reviews for a while. But don't you worry, I have got you. I will keep you entertained with my poetry pieces. 

Let’s play a game:

Close your eyes.

Think of the last time life knocked you down.

Now think of the time before that.

And before that.

See it?

That thread, looping, stitching, binding.

That’s your pattern.

Mine?

Mine is delayed happiness—

A bad joke with no punchline.

First, rejection slices me open,

bleeds me dry.

Then success waltzes in,

fashionably late,

dragging its feet,

apologizing as if I should forgive it

for arriving in pieces.

Does that sound familiar?

Do you feel it too?

The déjà vu of pain,

The clockwork of disappointment,

Like the universe wrote a script

And forgot to edit.

Tell me—

What’s your pattern?

Is it heartbreak on repeat?

Or shadows that follow you into new rooms,

wearing old faces?

And what do we do with this?

These maddening cycles,

these spirals that don’t spiral out,

but back in,

again

and again

and again.

Do we fight it?

Do we break it?

Or do we wear it,

like a second skin,

until we forget it’s even there?

Or maybe—

we take a needle.

Unpick the threads.

Undo the seams.

Watch the fabric fall apart

and weave something new.

But tell me,

and be honest—

Do you really believe we can?

Let me know in the comments section what do you think of it.