Words

Every once in a while,

I will read something,

That gets too close to the reality,

And it'll make my heart skip a beat,

Stop me from breathing normally,

And make me realise,

Wow, something like that happened to someone else too,

There's someone else in this world you knows exactly how you felt when it happened,

And even though I've written about it in similar words,

Someone else described it in such a way that still made you stop and stare at those words,

Repeat them at least thrice,

Stare at the wall for a few minutes,

Re-read it again,

Take a deep breath,

Let it sink in,

Save it for later,

And then wish, pray, hope,

That the same words find you too,

To probably haunt you,

Or to probably just give you a hint,

Of how I would have felt,

But, you'll never know that.

I know.