110. Gardener

I ran around this world looking for love

But never bothered looking within myself. 

How can I be loved by others

When I don’t even love myself? 


I am the gardener who cultivates 

the gardens of others with soil and sand,

Always coming back to my own backyard; 

a dried up barren land. 


-Rithin. 

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