Oh Child Hood! How Beautiful Were Thee! Poem by Nausheen Zaidi

Oh Child Hood! How Beautiful Were Thee!
Like a silver glittering in the rainy cloud I see.
We flew to the unknown heights on your feathers,
Touched the resplendent warm rays when gathered.
You passed me by, as a sudden flicker of light,
While I was making my life, you were gone out of sight.
And you took with you, my innocence and fair conscience,
Lending me instead, the cruel experiences and worldly nonsense.
I kept searching for you, in every human and child.
but you were hidden all along inside in me as a riel’
I felt your presence in my heart now though often,
which makes my hardened stanch on life soften.