Poetry- a drawing by Aaryana Sharma

A skull

Memories and thoughts

With elephant tusks

Three

Hanging beads on string

A rose through an eye of the skull

Looking at only beauty in pain

A mouth

Half shut in obedience

The other half pouring out in liberation

A heart

Under the neck

Pierced with a sword

Blood dripping from the heart

Shapes make up the body

Surrounding the heart

Which lays outside

A heart which is stabbed

Is our emotions

Our strange and beautiful vulnerable exposure

The outline of the shapes

Are our values

And beliefs

Which hold us together

There are designs in each shape

Our organic memories which

Replace our organs

All but the heart

The body begins to end

When triangles

Detach from the body

These triangles are our doubts

And fears