Brightness Cannot Be Clouded

By Waheeda Bi Khan

People strive to shine

Through murk and storms

But, true brightness just waits

For storms to abate or pass on

Then gleam or dazzle the onlooker.

Just like the moon that strives

To shine through the night’s darkness

With the borrowed reflection of earth.

But, has to fade away 

In the star’s brightness.

While the Sun just blazes consistently

Until the clouds shed away.

People try to cloud others’ brightness

To limelight their reflected gleams

But, just a chink in their relentless

Shrouding, shoots the suppressed beam

Uncloaking the brightness in-born.

People waste precious lives

In pursuit of usurping others’ light.

But, borrowed flames eventually fuse

So, ignite the natural embers within

To spark, as darkness can be shed 

Even by the tiny twinkling stars.

By Waheeda Bi Khan