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RENASCENCE

By : Sonika Malloth

I walked through the darkened street
Facing vicious winds, blinding sleet
Followed just like a robotic machine
Every footprint separated by archine

Till I reached an obsolete boulevard
Embellished with bits of glass shard
Felt its light devour darkness in me
My heart pounded with malicious glee

Prompted me to release my inhibition
I daren't deviate from old recursion
I cannot risk with my blistered feet
For I found no footprint of an elite

Warily as I dragged ahead I stumbled
Startled I turned to see who mumbled
It rose through the illuminated path
My shadow,concealed for long it hath

Watch your step before it's too late
It's in your hand,changing your fate
Had you ever wondered why you follow
You could have avoided prolix sorrow

Rather dumbfounded by this criticism
For I never had a bite of erraticism
I ought to follow, I was conditioned
To succeed,can't break the tradition

What is the kernel of success? Money
Protected life where you are a dummy
Or experiencing interminable ecstasy
Feeling alive,filled with expediency

Just trying to fit in the busy crowd
Instead proclaim new rules all aloud
Have the world your way,intelligence
Is in not holding dreams in abeyance

Instantaneously I pulled the trigger
And made my way for something bigger
I held my arms wide open and my eyes
Enlivened as I kissed the blue skies

I started on my own jaunt, undefined
Unguided and with a ending unplanned
May fail,I will never rue the burden
Emerged anew I'm reaching for heaven