“Break From Within”

By – Randhir Thiyam, Uripok 
An egg breaks
from the outside—
a life ends.

An egg breaks
from the inside—
a life begins.

Same shell.
Same crack.
Different force,
Different direction.

Maybe that is life:
Pressure from outside
can destroy you;
but power from within
can create you.

Sometimes,
the crack is not the end…
it is the beginning of a life.