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Flowing<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Rhea Mehta<\/strong>\n \n May 1, 2021<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A picture worth a thousand broken smiles\u2014a caption: the backs of hundreds of thousands of children bend so you can dance in a shiny cropped top. Liked.<\/p>\n

BANNED\u2014it screams\u2014STOLEN. Our rights, we fill in the blanks, that must be it. It is these blanks that make us all believe that life is harder than we are told it is\u2014that some hidden politician is twisting some handles within the shadows that are pulling us all into a miserable existence. Liked.<\/p>\n

Rising it is, the deaths\u2014our plague. It pleads for us to stay back, stay away, to save ourselves. Liked, for the simple fact that someone will know that I am conscious\u2014my username serving to be a stamp of my duty. I know this, but I will still stumble out of my house at night and pretend the world is wholly ordinary.<\/p>\n

The yearning of a population\u2014farmers begging for rights, being pulled and pushed around by letters stamped on a piece of legislation. Shared. Only because you had to be there\u2014scrambling on the dusty inner roads while the police barricaded the highway\u2014to know what the pounding heart of hopelessness feels like.<\/p>\n

Sued\u2014for talking. The wrong way though, a government calls for equality while performing for purity. The picture has demon faces on it. Liked.<\/p>\n

Starved faces, hollow eyes\u2014how should I stand when they have fallen? Liked, shared\u2014reminded. I could be them, but I am lucky.<\/p>\n

Save a family, war in the Middle East. An array of images\u2014don\u2019t forget. Liked. Re-posted. There is a link, click to feed\u2014save. It is clicked but forgotten.<\/p>\n

The rainbows\u2014back at it. Flowing colours everywhere, we stand stuck. How to help and not fall into the whispered stares as people try to find out if you are one of them too. Liked, but not shared. It could have been shared.<\/p>\n

Switched off\u2014set down. The sky outside is still blue, the air still stale. There is no yearning of a thousand broken voices, so one forgets sometimes. That in the real world, suffering exists to be shared\u2014to be helped. It will go on and on and on\u2014new problem, no solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Rhea Mehta<\/strong> is a freshman at the University of Southern California and is majoring in Theatre. 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