Life Poem by Aarushi Chatterjee

As I stood one sunny spring day
Near a blue lake where the ripples gave way
To yield to the rising sun, its reflection
And my gaunt features replete with dejection.

I pondered my uncertain future
As bubbles of dark blue and white
Raced across the shimmering waters
And set the crimson-necked cranes a-flight.

I knew it was going to be pretty hard
A difficult decision I had to take
Painful is starting on new journeys
Leaving people you love in your gloomy wake.

Walking through the mists of time
Following my way through dreary lands
Footsteps traced up to a night no more
Blown away no less by the wispy sand.

This was life, and I well knew
As I stared upon my miserable face
There were things other than strife too
That I must need be bear in grace.

My destiny was written maybe
Somewhere in those bubbles, never ceasing to shine
And with a heart afresh I left them to go their way
And me to go on mine.