I'm Going to be Alive Someday by Pranav Khatri (15, India)

I went to see the winter sky at night.
I was in the hills, and the wind blew ferociously.
The stars looked so bright, my eyes-
They could almost see me in that light.

​I was so dead when I was in the hills that night,
I couldn’t feel anything except for cold numbness in January.
I slithered out lies
When they asked if I was doing alright.

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I felt like a black hole amidst heaven's brightness.
I stood in the balcony to listen to animals, calmly.
But I couldn’t hear them over the sound of my goodbyes.
During those dark and numb winter hours, I lacked sight.

​I was dead back then,
I am a little less dead now.
I hope I am alive someday.