fighting to stay

Little I know of today
Nothing I know of tomorrow
Comes with baggage knowledge of yesterday
As with me time plays

With the thread of now
Life sows the quilt of moments
Carefully laying patches of memories
Creating a unique piece

Pictures of laughing smiles
From innocence of a child’s eyes
To rough tired adult mind
Kodak captures the fallen tears

While written on blank pages the stories
In ink of success and failures
Chapter after chapter is bound
With a iridescent wish of happy ending

Then comes destiny in its course
Turning the hands on the clock
Winds of despair blow away few pages
Smudged with thoughts unwritten in the book

Hope awaits its decaying fete
Leap of faith hops on broken feet
Thinking, perhaps the unspoken words lost
Might be found again to complete the story

Under the dimming candle light
Darkening evening clouds hover the night
Eyes are tired of reading as I write
Another failed attempted episode of sunlight

No more crimson rays fall upon
No moon shines through the nighttime
Stars hide under the blanket of darkness
Wandering eyes are exhausted looking beyond haziness

The church bells are ringing afar
Alone in the crowd I see word passing by
With faked smile plastered on my face
I seek my route back to the gates of sanguinity

No dialogues left to say
But silent tears make their way
Ssshhh! No whispers to the anyone’s ears
For the battle field is open only for me to enter

I know not what tomorrow entails
Yesterday has left me bleeding
Today is slipping through my fingers
Now I’m holding onto loosening tight grip

Perhaps tomorrow shall bring the sun
Thunderstorm shall pass away soon
Lightening has burnt out
And rain has poured all its droplets

…even though…

Little I know of today
Nothing I know of tomorrow
Comes with baggage knowledge of yesterday
As with me time plays

….I still keep fighting to stay