Finding yourself?

Amidst all the cheering and jeering

I stand with my back to all those people

I can hear them and yet I turn a deaf ear to them

Because in this moment, nothing matters

It is just me and my thoughts

And these thoughts overpower me

Like waves overpower a sinking ship

There was a ship I once saw

It was blue and red and a little green

It kept moving ahead with a hole at the bottom

The captain kept rowing and rowing

And the others kept emptying the ship of the water

He was almost in a frenzy to reach the horizon

And he did not seem to care about the setting sun

In the same sea a little further from the ship

I saw two fishes, they were blue and red and a little green

They were chasing the yellow light in the sea

That bright light lit the sea as if it was on fire

They kept swimming and jumping and running

With each step ahead they lost the soft beautiful fins

And yet they kept swimming towards the horizon

Not knowing that the sun was really setting

And so I kept thinking and looking at horizon

In my clothes which were blue and red and a little green

I could feel the waves inside me

And I could feel the fins losing

And yet I looked on towards the horizon

Long after the cheering was muffled

And the sun had drowned

And I was still far from the horizon

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