I wonder what makes my life so simple
Is it my work or speech or my stars that twinkle?
Right from my childhood I have always received
Teachers' praises for every tiny height I achieved.
Every passer by wish was fulfilled
Without me ever expressing my will.
I was just practical with my ways in order
And inhabited in my mind's racing recorder.
I am indeed aware of all my innate flaws
And thus inch by inch each day I withdraw.
But my backward movement seems invisible
Since I am gifted with a magnet indivisible.
I attract all things alike - good and bad
Bad seems to make me learn a lesson on time
While good comes as pearls strung on line.
And when this makes the motion forward
My joyous heart feels shortly absurd.
Its the incompetency that eats me up
Along with insecurities of flaws which club.
I sometimes need someone to convince me
That I really deserve what comes my way so easily.
Hollowness vacuums my lungs inside
As I move to better place to reside.
Am I really worthy of this fortune?
Is question I face every morning and noon.
And probably this makes me so modest
Making my image so perfect and best.
But isn't this worse than ostentation
As hypocrisy mocks at my mirror reflection?
When will I taste the sweat of my hard work?
When will my clothes be darkened with dirt?
I want to experience the joy of labour
And not sleep on bed of roses of unknown favour
There was no apparent silver spoon
But life was made easy by just one boon.
That boon is my mother who toils for my life
Every second for peace she has strived
And til now I passively enjoyed fruits of her action
Ignorantly living in mode of richness and passion.
But now the time is knocking my door
To understand whats life worth living for.
My childhood, you caressed, O mother
I swear your old age I will make better
As I move to new age and new place
Lots of habits I need to replace
So that every time I have a fall
Again I will make myself stand tall
Its time to move and breathe life into my self
And crush all virgin insecurities that dwell
Once I get my wheels back on road
Hard work will be the single chore
And then the sweat oozing out of my forehead
Will make me proud and worthy of the earned bread.
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