Fears

By Harshit Gupta

I sat on a terrace staring at the stars

Thinking about, the purpose of ours

Hustling from life here and then

Finally got the time to think and stand

Wind’s blowing across the ears

Feeling cold while thinking about the fears

Fears that we have of failure

Fears that stopped us from being there

Fears that took us to the brink

Fears that don’t let us stop and think

At last I am here,

Got the time to think and stare

With all the fears kept aside

There is no death in my eyes

Sometimes i think about the scars

They look silly in front of the mighty stars

Thus I think of being futile

But the algae were there for just a while

Moon is lighting up the skin

There is nothing here on the brink

With the money I made in those years

Something was missing, I really feared

With death approaching me,

I am thinking should I here be?

Devil of death looking in the eyes

Moments I cherish are all my highs

With them as the weapon, I am dread

All the difficulties paving the way ahead

After the loop finally got over

I am here again, partly sober

Sitting on the terrace lookin’ up the sky

The life is steadily passing by

Showing the childhood dreams she stared

Had a thought of why I couldn’t be there

I was thinking for a reason but,

Fear was all that fully appeared

What about the next life she asked?

I told her, the one without any fear

Fear that stopped me from being there

Lookin’ up the stars concealed behind

I told her the one where I have some time

The one with a meaning, whereby

I am not just a passerby.

By Harshit Gupta