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Run

Faster!

wait

slow down.

take a break,

get up.

Run again.

Intrepid younglings rushing ahead to reach the top,

Pushing through the throng to be first

One fell down and in pain he cries,

They looked back but turned a blind eye

For they had another goal set.

Wretched, he decides to vanquish all

But to stand up again he had none to abet.

Inflicted by the sudden change in hearts

Where are those that decided to always stay?

To where did they vanish away?

Escalating aggrievance resulted retreat

Though destiny was nigh...

Latent acrimoniousness for revenge awaits,

young blood boiling in fury of fad

In madness to reach the summit.

Time and time again he falls,

dejected by failures he condones to it.

Feels like a dream unreachable

No matter how many times he climbs

Something pushes him back to fall in pit.

He wanders around in void corridors of his dream,

Tired from the endless miseries.

Cold wind blows through the rustic windows,

A call of rain, to cry along in his melancholy

Clouds of gloom now pouring heavily.

The frame's fall from distant echoes,

to the forbidden wing it leads

oddity of the place invites, and into the debarred he goes

very well aware to not, but intrepid blood of youth flows.

Shattered glass of the frame lies,

To see ahead, a legion of same in dust

He picks up to to only have it's face black;

unrecognisable, unidentified.

Only the distortion evident in it's individuality.

Surveying he found them all the same,

Why were they here in this state?

what happened to their once glorious prime?

at the back of one was written in bold–

"To not endeth up h're, thee wilt reacheth the crest."

Oh what epiphany had he grabbed!

To run for the staircase again.

With steady steps at each, from bottom

He reaches the most dreaded one,

The memories of legion falls, befell.

Crumbling them down as old dried leaves

He believes himself.

To be there amongst the endorsed frames

In best of state, recognisable, identified.

Another one amongst the gallant braves!

 

                                          Author's Note

Hello there! It's been a long time since I last wrote a poem. This piece is inspired from 'Run',the title track of BTS’s 4th mini album, 화양연화 The Most Beautiful Moment In Life Pt.2. I have tried to portray it's concept through my poem in a symbolic way. As the song talks about how tiring and difficult youth is as one always has to keep trying and coping up with the failures, also coinciding with the other part of the song to be adventurous and daring where young people take risks to try a new way of things, which sometimes might bring them success or even failure.

The poem here starts from a child play, where the younglings are all trying to reach the top of the stairway and due to the crowd's pushing, one of them falls down. The rest of his friends look back but since the game was to reach the top, they dismiss the thought of going back and think of helping him when they have once won. But that does hurt the sentiments of the one who fell, and he decides to defeat them all. Being injured he tries again and again to climb the steps but fall and becomes dejected to a point to accept his failure and go back. In the melancholic state of his he roams around in the verandahs nearby and with the loud thud of a photo frame's, because of the cold breeze and raging storm diverts him to the sound of it, although it came from the forbidden side of the place his curiosity made him want to go and see what lies there. And in the spirit of adventure and something new to explore he goes into the debarred to find a place full of frames hanging on walls but they all looked the same, lacking individuality. None could be recognised because of the blackness on their face, he picks one to see something written at the back of it to not give up or else he'd one like them, and the realisation struck him that he must continue his struggle till he reaches his destination because what was written there ignited a fear of not being recognised as someone he is, because he decided to fall in tracks of the many others who fell from the same stairs again and again and gave up.

With courage and spirit of youth he tries again, with steady calculated steps he maintains his balance and reaches the destination he marked, to become one of the endorsed frames every other would look up to, and appreciate their art.

That's the little plot I had in mind to convey the message of not giving up and running towards your dream no matter how many times you fail, also the joy of exploring new possibilities is an adventure that awaits everyone, because without a little risk the child would have never known what lied in the forbidden part of the place and wouldn't be able to reach the frame and be onished against stopping to try again or he would end up there.

Thank you for reading

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