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Prayer

by LANGLEN NINGTHOUJAM
M.Sc. Physics, Final Year
University of Delhi

So many secrets welled up in me.
Nothing to tell to anybody.
What am I to do?
What am I supposed to do?
This facade I have carried for so long.
Want to throw discretion to the winds.
Want to open up, let all of it go.
Feel the sense of freedom creep up,
And hold me in its ecstasy.
Come to me, free me.
Let me feel true.

So lonely, I felt, so alone.
As I watched the ripples go away.
And alongside let my thought a drift.
Contemplating over life and what not
The years that have gone by.
The images come and go.
Things I have loved and cherished.
Things I have hated and loathed.
Beautiful mirages lost out on time.
Unfulfilled hopes and desires.
Can I was turn back and say
Yes, that was life.

Will my dreams ever come true?
All those things I have painted bright.
Will the true colours ever shine?
This senseless nameless fear
That is engulfing me.
Will it ever leave the free?
Will I be ever able to find myself again.
The darkness stretching beyond by horizons.
Fills one with a devastating shudder
Will there ever be light again?


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