Metamorphosis

By Purnima Ray

I played with my tears,

Behind the feary glass of illusion,

Supposedly content with a gift not mine to hold,

Painting the walls to grow it strong,

Leaving all the belongings afar!

Little did I realise,

There's a knocking in the darkness within,

That mocks my guarded edge,

When they saw my scar still bleeds,

From a diamond line, shining like a hollow sun!

I was fleeting, 

From the shadow war, as my ghost flame felt like a first!

Fought still like a storm of steel,

Against all the possibilities of light's return,

To silence the unfolding of horizons!

I was alone in my battle yet,

For my psyche had no metals for a slaughter,

Had no whispers of tangible chaos to brush against,

It just knocked, with the lips' lantern,

And took me without a struggle into his realm of Aurora!

I sneaked to see through the veil,

Walking into tomorrow, undressing the shadow of my past,

With just a torch of hope & broken pieces still,

To find my universe flickering around,

And weave back into the lyrical song of self!

The little steps that I pressed into the wind,

Unmasked the dreams I had as if a secret flower blossom,

My eyes revamped the flame from the stars,

As if a body with a night's handwriting,

Got rethreaded & recrafted into a soul of gold!

The walls standing still are now shaking, 

To wither like a fading petal, 

For now, I need to embrace those silent ruins,

That pushed me past the shore of fear,

To love the ghost in my own skin!

I am rewriting myself,

Kissing the time's hand behind my back,

I am changing, carrying both the echoes & the bloom,

To unfold my star seeded within & blurry the veil of I,

To live out of existence in a universe where my soul & I meet!

By Purnima Ray