Just Let Me Be Me Poem by Sakshi Walia

WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT'S HAPPENING? I DON'T KNOW? PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND!

TOO STUCK AT THIS MOMENT, LOST MY WINGS, I WANNA FLY AGAIN 

YES, I REALLY DO...

HERE I AM NOW, UNDER THIS SKY, AT SUCH HEIGHTS

I FEEL MORE ALIVE HERE, HERE IN THIS BARREN LAND, HERE WHERE THE AIR IS SO FRESH 

WHERE THE SKY IS SO CLEAR, WHERE THERE'S NO FINITE BARRIERS.

EVERYTHING  SEEMS BEYOND IMAGINATION. 

NOTHING FEELS MORE PURE, MORE TRUE, MORE ME I SUPPOSE!  

I CAN BE HERE FOR WHOLE OF MY LIFE. THESE HEIGHTS INSPIRE ME, ENCOURAGE ME FOR STANDING UP ONCE AGAIN AND NOT BACKING DOWN THAT EASILY.

THESE WINDS BLOWING ARE CONNECTING ME TO MY INNER-SELF, REVIVING MY CONSCIENCE.

FAR FROM THAT WORLD OF ROBOTS WHERE EVERYONE IS BOUND TO OBEY CERTAIN RULES, FORCED TO EARN FOR LIVING, FAR AWAY FROM THAT RAT RACE, I'M HERE, I'M HERE TODAY SITTING ON THIS PIECE OF ROCK CUT STONE WITH ANTS CRAWLING AND STRUGGLING THROUGH THEIR OWN UNIQUE BATTLES.

FROM HERE THE WORLD SEEMS SO DIFFERENT, SO REAL, SO WONDERFUL...

THIS SILENCE HERE IS SO OVERWHELMING, NO ONE DARES TO DISTURB THESE SILENCES  ; EVERYONE SEEMS TO FOLLOW THE ONLY RULE PREVAILING THAT IS 'SILENCE'.

EVERY CREATURE IS IN PEACE . THE BIRDS FEELING FREE TO CHIRP, THE TREES ALL SET TO DANCE ON THE NOTES OF THE WINDS BLOWING LIKE A RHYTHMIC FLUTE. 

PONDERING NOW WHAT THE LIFE IS?  

IS IT THE ONE OVER HERE, FULL OF JOY, SMILES, PEACE, NO PROMISES  TO KEEP  , NO RULES TO FOLLOW, NO ONE TO QUESTION, NO ONE TO PRETEND AND NO ONE TO HATE EITHER. 

OR THE ONE I HAVE TO GO BACK TO? THE LIFE WHERE IT'S ALL ABOUT FOLLOWING NEPOTISM, GETTING INCLUDED IN THE RAT RACE STRUGGLING HARD TO EARN A LIVING AND SACRIFICING THE DREAMS, ALL THOSE BROKEN PROMISES, THOSE SEVERE HEARTACHES, THOSE EVERY TIME ARISING QUESTIONS THAT DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE ANSWERED....

I GUESS NO ONE HAS EVER FIGURED IT OUT AND NEITHER ANYONE WILL....

I DON'T WANNA GO BACK, I WANNA STAY HERE  ,  RIGHT HERE, IN THESE HEIGHTS, FOLLOWING MY HEART, CHASING MY DREAMS, DISCOVERING MYSELF AND MOST IMPORTANTLY CREATING MYSELF!

I WANNA BREATHE 

JUST LET ME BREATHE.....

I WANNA LIVE 

JUST LET ME LIVE......

DON'T FORCE ME TO BE WHOM I'M NOT 

JUST LET ME BE ME....

JUST LET ME BE ME.....