Arriving the world after a long
scream,
She lies peacefully in her
cradle,
A kingdom which she owned,
She could feel the bliss,
Days passed by the princess
started crawling,
As if every piece of the land
belonged to her,
Hard playing and harder sleeping
all day long,
Trusting everyone who kissed her
innocent face,
No reality hitting her, she grows
as the most secure and happy kid,
Stiffly ironed pinafores and
skirts,
Reciting poems and feeling proud,
Appreciated for being naughty and
active,
She thought life is so immaculate.
Her dream starts growing and so
does she,
Achieving in all places that she
stepped into because she didn't learn the word impossible back then,
Muddy shoes defined her beauty,
Those golds, silver, and bronze
on her chest,
The princess walks back to her
castle,
Happy to see her parent's eyes
glitter in pride,
So, satisfied she lies on the
bed, a peaceful sleep….
Being an adult reality gushes
into one's body without consciousness,
We differentiate everything into
possible or impossible, easy or difficult, right and wrong…
People who were quite start
speaking about the grown up,
She feels supernatural, as if
growing up was a fault, thoughts taunting,
She anyways continued,
And then echoes of their voices
amplified,
She feared if something will stop
her but never revealed it in action,
She anyways continued, days were
hard, people dumped negativity and wanted her to be one among all, wanted her
to stop and settle down.
She got furious, trying to fight
and explain, they said she isn't good,
People who had pampered her is no
more in her journey,
Her nightmares are terrible,
tears wetting the pillow,
she doubts her journey at times
but something still wants her to persist,
Nobody to comfort when she wanted
it the most,
Breathing was getting harder,
She still dresses up and
continues for the next day,
She realizes she need not explain
people about her journey and why it was important to her,
She moves on discovering herself,
She could once again feel the
bliss,
Connected to the universe inside
and outside her, she continues…
-Sangeetha Priya I
