Your legs are shackled but you still yearn for a flight.
Your body has been in a battle but your spirits are high,
Your steps may falter but your heart knows to leap.
You have dreams,hopes, aspirations, and a beautiful life to keep.
Your father has saved each penny to get your legs repaired
Your mother has, in the dense kitchen dreamt of you coming alive.
They have seen you fall, they want you to rise,
They want you to be what you always surmised.
Today, I hear the sound of ghungrus coming into life,
Your feet finally escaped the slings you hugged by.
The world froze, as you mastered a step.
A step towards life, a step towards light.
A step which was as warm as a smile.
You finally won the battle which was for long forsaken.
For, your legs might have been shackled but your heart knew to leap.
I wasn't always who I am today. It took a lot of courage to break past my shell. Oscar Wilde had once stated that knowing what you want to be in life becomes a curse because you invariably become that but not knowing is liberating, there are endless possibilities of who you can become. I too didn't know who I was going to be. Today, I realise it was liberating. I never knew i could find my voice some day. Now that I feel liberated,it becomes difficult to remain confined. We need to grow, evolve into better beings each day. We need to grow past the "checks and balances" of life. I remember Fuller here, Fuller has asked us to be a part of a process of this evolving planet. He wants us to be "verbs" not "nouns"! Here is a tale of an introverted me who knew not what to expect from life . ....... I would talk less at school, not attend socialising events, avoid looking at stranger's eyes while on the road. In short, I wanted to be invisible to t...
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