This poem is one that I wrote about experiencing pain in life and overcoming it. We often learn and grow from painful or unpleasant experiences, and that is what I had in mind while writing this.
A depth drawn
By the lines of long lost,
In which I left a foot behind
Once upon a nightfall,
And once upon a night’s dream
I left a life behind
And trudged onwards
And into a New World ,
With one shackled ankle
And no memories in hand,
To wade in water and
To wade in land
Where the sand and
The stones
Might break my bones
To the beat
Of a hollowed, rainbowed drum —
To crawl along a path unpaved,
And to find oneself so lone
And alone,
Alone as before,
So Lone in this conquest
And a mighty gargantuan
Ton on my chest,
To heave on the mountain
When Eden’s only just in sight —
And to fall all at once
And to fall into light,
To fall into heaven
And to fall out of night,
To swim in waters
That danced me
Into a rosy, terracotta, evening sun —
A sun that caressed
My every breath
And with its softest warmth,
Every wound it dressed,
The Edenic gold it
Dripped into my soul
And salved it right
Up until it was whole —
Now I dance down this path
And I limp to this beat,
I sing the harmony
Of two whole feet.
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© 2021 Shreya Alagramam
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