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by Elizabeth Scott

What is nirvana?
Is it a moment of freedom?
Maybe it's a moment of absolute joy
or absolute innocence.
Or maybe it's the moment you find yourself
perplexed
bewildered
haunted
by an untranslatable emotion that fills you with terror.
One that your language cannot contain.
This is when your mission begins.
To search for the language that can coax the emotion
out of your heart and spew it from your tongue.
So that you may finally be free.
And for the sake of your breaking heart,
I hope that this language contains the magic
that can turn this awful pain
into music.