I embrace you in open arms
in pain and in laughter
in joys and sorrows,
as I falter mapping the paths
broad and narrow.
With heavy feet, I tread
teary eyes, I dream,
with blank verse and onomatopoeia,
I take count of my memorabilia.
Happy days spent with happy people
happy faces turning sour
and I witnessed them all.
Innocence trampled in unjust lanes
played and rattled with
I allowed it to fall
and then allowed it to heal.
A fool was I
took time to learn the ways of life,
never knew even love has its price
I thought it to be all bright.
Writing forayed into my soul
uncalled and unthought of,
while I was knocking on the closed door,
You paved a whole new road.
By Nandini Sengupta
@metaphors_of_life