Life .....

When I was a child

Life I believed was this …

A canvas of colours

A riot of happiness and sadness

A cacophony of music

Like the birds cooing when nature is still…..

When I became an adult

alas life had been this ….

A struggle between wants and needs

A shadow ….a blanket

Hiding everything from me

I don’t know where did the colours flee …

I thought I needed a new canvas for my life …

And I went in search of colours ….

Lived in nature, lived between people

But nothing inside me felt coloured

I was empty , and hungry ..

Alas life was this …

I thought I had failed …

I thought I had spoiled my canvas

With my greed and selfishness….

Little was I to know

That my tears had wiped my canvas

It was fair again like the day I was born …

Sumone handed me a brush

And said ‘go on child paint it …

But paint it so u remember and cherish

Until the canvas of ur life lasts …’…..