By Komal Ghulam Nabi
I search for a place which is never bound to have a shape
But a place that only offers me a peaceful space
Space that gives me a way to escape
Escape from crowd and their voice
Because voice gets stuck in my mind causing a noise
Noise which is never my choice but comes as if it is a friend with the traces I left behind
Traces formed along my way
A way taking me back to my old days
Days that I passed making few mistakes
Mistakes that left me with many fears
Same fears often scream in my ears, making everything unclear for many years
I reflect same years with a different view, today
Because today, I carry a piece of wisdom as I accept my faults and learn from wrong decisions
Learning is a long process of life though
Life which itself is a cycle with different phases
Phases like my childhood's innocence and adulthood's failure
Failure which definitely shows the attempts working towards a dream of mine
That dream big enough to inspire me with passing time
Time which keeps changing like the lines of my palm holding my fate
Fate which tells me I can achieve everything if I sincerely work and pray
This pray reminds me of my existence that I was made out of clay
And I am that very clay having a choice to flow or surf like waves of the sea
Sea that has so much common with me
Like my salty tear and its salty water
Water gives a lesson to work with patience everyday as it desperately waits to meet the sun
And sun always bows down to meet his friend on earth
Earth created by the only one Almighty
One guiding me right now in its own beautiful way, taking me to my peaceful place
While giving the answers in my own questions all along
Connecting each dot making things clear and clear, leading me where I belong
Like the rhyming words come together to make this poem at the end
I now found peaceful place within myself.