What Are We?

By Manasi Rakesh Dwivedi

In this vast, mysterious sea,

What are we, you ask, what could we be?

Are we but shadows, dancing in the light,

Or are we sparks igniting in the night?

Are we the whispers of forgotten dreams,

Or are you a part of my life’s grand scheme?

Do we drift away like leaves with the autumn breeze,

Or are we birds that soar above the trees?

Are we echoes lost in time,

Was our existence meant to rhyme?

In this endless quest to understand,

We seek truths that we can’t withstand.

Yet which each truth that unfolds,

Our perception of reality morphs and molds.

In the end the question remains,

What are we?

Our own destruction,

Or our saving grace.

By Manasi Rakesh Dwivedi