Jhilmil’s poem explores perpetual emptiness, revealing a flawed vessel incapable of fulfillment, where longing outlasts any fleeting attempt to fill it, exclusively for Different Truths.
The cup once filled lies empty now
The hollowness was bigger than it looked—
There was a hole at the bottom—
And the cup never filled.
The water, never enough—
Never what the cup needed,
Flowed right through—
The cup left empty
For all eternity—
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