YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

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Freedom describes the disillusionment that follows when one wakes up to the harshness of reality - the beloved is not the person one fell in love with. Compare this poem to Death of a Girl (1984).

Freedom describes the disillusionment that follows when one wakes up to the harshness of reality - the beloved is not the person one fell in love with. Compare this poem to Death of a Girl (1984).

YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

This is one of my newer poems from the Twin Flames series. It describes the moment of accepting that one's love will never be reciprocated and that it's time to finally let go.

YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

This is one of my newer poems from the Twin Flames series. It describes the moment of accepting that one's love will never be reciprocated and that it's time to finally let go.

YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

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YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

YouTube video by Vanita Shukla Hork - Portrait in Poetry

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I wrote The Silent Friend in 1985 at the age of 18. I wrote it for a friend on his birthday. I found him very enigmatic; I longed to penetrate his mysterious aura. I might have been in love with him.