A GLINT BY THE WINDOW PANE

There I was waiting for Hypnos to embrace me

with oodles of thoughts flowing in,

Staring at the perpetual darkness, eyes welled up as the

 bruises began to hurt again from the deepest corner of my heart.

Memories flashed in front of my eyes and

Everything seemed like yesterday.

The agony it caused, Oh! No more,

No more can I take the ashes from my past, excruciating.

I see no light in tomorrow

I see no prosperity in tomorrow

only desolation, desolation my companion without fail.

As a tear drop paved its way down my cheek,

I saw a sparkle by the window

A firefly! With high spirits I watched it shimmer around

Spreading its’ light wherever it went.

For a moment, an instant gaiety pervaded the air around

It brimmed my heart, a joy that the tiny glowing worm could provide.

It was agitated and urged for freedom,

Freedom from the four walls, from the humid atmosphere,

 from the darkness the room concealed.

I opened the window and it flew out in a jiffy,

Sat on the window pane, I watched it flickered

After a minute or two, it flew away in tranquility.

Contemplating, I realized that I am no different from the firefly,

We both urged for freedom, for me

Freedom from the cage I built for myself

freedom from my past, freedom from the pain.

Though bitter, it is time that I endorse that I have not healed

But I can, now I see hope, I see light.

Instead of the ruins from my past, visions from my future grabbed me

Me lying in a meadow with the pink lilacs on the trees above

Like an embellishment to the light blue sky.

The view was splendid that I stood there oblivious.

Eventually, I went to sleep peacefully hoping for a better tomorrow,

The glint I saw by the window turned out to be

 the glint in my own life.