Who Am I?! (A Poem)

 


As the sun sets in for the day and ushers in the evening,

I find myself silently contemplating,

On a question that teases me, I wonder why,

And the question is – Who am I?

 

The question doesn’t trouble me as much

As the answers that make me, myself, judge.

They remind me of all my mistakes and errors,

Where I look my worst, they show such mirrors.

 

The soul is tired of being judged under right and wrong,

To get rid of these labels, it has struggled long.

And yet the struggle has been in vain,

For somehow, the labels, my identity did obtain.

 

For the question – Who am I – an answer I long for,

An answer that won’t label me anymore,

An answer that will show me in a better light,

An answer that says – I tried to do right.

 

Someday the answer will say – I am someone

Who tried to take the path forlorn,

Someone who tried to be different from others,

Someone who from her failures, learns and recovers.

 

The answer will say someday that I tried

To be on life’s better and correct side,

Mistakes I made many, flaws I have plenty,

But the other better side of me is not empty!

 

Someday the answer will be that for some people, I made it easier,

My deeds, my words, helped someone feel better.

The answer will be that I haven’t always been a taker,

That I also gave, by the grace of my Maker.

 

Dear life, when I ask this of you,

To tell me who I am, then, please be a kinder ‘You’!

Give me the answer that shows me in a flattering light,

For, I have erred, but many a times, I tried to do it right!

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