I'm Home ....Poem by Aksa Roy

Opened the door of my atelier
 to dust off some wild pieces of art. 
Felt the wistfulness of the crumbled paper. 
Seems like it whelved some wild secrets.. 

 Then I picked one of those.. 
 Letters were smudged a lil' bit. 
 It was hard to read... 
 Still I was able to read.. 

"Once I was young and overzealous. 
But now I'm drained and reckless.. 
Had a dream but it was a castle in the sand 
and was ephemeral as the shooting star. 

Someone said,*stars shine the brightest 
only in the darkest night..* 
And I'm livin' in the aura of darkness, 
to see the daylight... 

I'm looking for peace in chaos. 
Far away I found peace in my home.
I knew it was there..but.. 
I can't..I'm lost in the woods. 

I saw the rays of aurora peeking 
through the broken window. 
wish I could go back. 
I can't..my mind is frozen. 

Far away younger myself was adoring the dawn,
while I'm groping in the dark. 
'Come back home' ,it echoed. and towards 
the peace..out of darkness..I broke away.. 
And I'm running towards the peace I've been lookin' for."..... 

Tears blurred my vision.. 
it dropped down and smudged 'em even more. 
Took my pen and wrote.. 
And finally ...I'm home... 

*Stars shine..*-Elizabeth George

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