Salam U alaikum.
Identity

Trapped in a body I can not name,
Listless, dying in endless pain,
Love I lose, lust I crave,
My mind is scattered,
I cannot name.

They clipped my wings,
Maimed and shackled,
Flightless and entrapped,
Defeat I face in my battle,
The heart is fully strapped.

Lead me through the branches, so limp.
Light the candle in the darkness.
Guide me, Release me, the future is dim.
Freedom cries from a far.

Alas, I feel the burning liberation,
The raging fire is my voice.
From the cliff, my last sensation,
I plunge, you cannot hoist.

Discover truth, embrace it.
Only it remains.
The flames have smoldered me into dust,
And yet, I cannot name.
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It's about this character who is struggling to overcome her mixed emotions and set herself free from anything that suppresses her. She is in a complete state of depression until she realizes what lies ahead of her. She follows the straight path; her inner struggles are her jihad...Towards the end of the journeyl, she has embraced reality, discoverd the truth and yet...she still doesnt know who she really is until the day of judgement.
This is just one persepective of the poem..another is the journey of a person struggling with their emotions until he or she overpowers his or her oppressors and becomes defiant and independent. But the only way that person has embraced the truth is by burning in the hellfire and realizing too late...that the only one holding him down was himself...his only oppressor was himself.

After reading the novel, Wide Sargasso Sea as an English assignment, I decided to write a piece to elaborate on main character's negative beliefs on life struggles. Her pessimism foreshadowed her procedure of overpowering her conflicting emotions and surmounting her oppressors. And that was by suicide. No worries, I have no suicidal tendancies whatsoever and I'm disturbed in any way, shape, or form.

It's my emotional release based on a personal experience, watching others and learning that "the human experience is the essense of our fate" as one person had put it. :)



Are you your own identity? Enlighten yourself.