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Apr 6Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken like a condemned playground teeming with absence

Heartbroken like a thousand steps without moving an inch

Heartbroken like an agonizing breeze on charred flesh

Heartbroken like this is all perfectly normal

Heartbroken like smiles of deceit and weaponized tears

Heartbroken like a million and one indignaties displayed for all to consume

Heartbroken like a countless rows in a spreadsheet, GoFundMe goal 0% met

Heartbroken like bloodied blonde hair finally got their attention

Heartbroken like unspeakable daily horrors

Heartbroken like tear gas at dawn prayers

Heartbroken like this has all got to go somehow

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Apr 6Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken as a bulldozed olive tree

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Apr 6Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken as a stepped on wildflower

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Apr 6Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbreaking and hauntingly beautiful.

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Apr 6Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken like cries from deep under rubble

Heartbroken like my kin, my kin, my God have mercy

Heartbroken like the blood of my labor

Heartbroken like the morning sun landing tenderly on shreds of clothes and limbs

Heartbroken like a poppy blooming on the edge of a ruined city

Heartbroken like a pot of soup that fills and fills the more it feeds

Heartbroken like an explosion ripping a hole in the night

Heartbroken like waves following waves, washing away borders

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Jun 12·edited Jun 12Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken like a swan dreaming they're a vulture soaring above a charnel ground

Heartbroken like watching Chinnamasta severe her own head before the blood streams nourish the three worlds

Heartbroken like accidentally killing the spider nesting behind your altar

Heartbroken like a fascist twitching mechanically while trapped within the thickest of Mahamaya's cobwebs

Heartbroken like all samsarins constantly missing the eternal dance of the Dakinis around their subtle body

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Jun 12·edited Jun 12Liked by Shambhavi Sarasvati

Heartbroken like heavy boulders of doubt knoted in ropes, constricting vital heart beats

Heartbroken like minds gone mad in sound proofed voids

Heartbroken like limp body draped in weary loving arms

Heartbroken like cries unable to reach numb blackened hearts that tick too quick

Heart broken like prison tortured, blind folded, naked and humiliated; gnawed by dogs

heartbroken like love turned congested hearts, blind eyes and cold touches

Heartbroken like betrayed souls wandering ruined landscapes

Heartbroken like children with no choice but to blame themselves

Heartbroken like boy begging you to buy his pizza

Heartbroken like a eye that blinks and theres another massacre

Heartbroken like a picture of smiling heroes in fresh scrubs

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