30dac Magazine Issue 01 September 2014 | Page 291

samantha mathura

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Two Excerpts From Beauty Of The Dark

by Samantha Mathura

Possibilities

The beauty of life comes from within you;

It doesn’t surround you unless you release it,

Like the roses that bloom in your garden,

Like a lost smile making its way to your face,

Nothing is impossible unless you say it is.

Hearts can fly with just a smile; the mind can swim in oceans of knowledge

But if the confidence of one’s true being is futile

Then all chances of success and contentment will diminish.

Nothing but a Reflection

I stared into the mirror, I searched for a face I once thought would never change.

The agony was overwhelming,

How astonished I was to look at my own reflection.

My human face was disguised by the realities of life,

My emotions where blocked by the hurt of my past,

I stared and stared hoping to find a heart inside the body that once accommodated me.

Time goes by and by; the seasons never fail to change.

But my life will never be the same.