Spell Yourself

It doesn’t take a moment to taste everything sour

When the pains of life mould in you a roughneck,

Scathing the entire prototype of your individuality.

I see you stand lonesome, shadowing around a mirror

To somehow reinstate the ‘you’ you were, years ago.

Why then did I come forth in your pursuit to find a self?

Wherefore am I honored by flashing before you now?

We never met in any road; you and I were they-

They who called themselves strangers, who knew never

The bridgeable bond of kinship a soul bore to another.

You still keep going on in your search; stride past miles a lot,

Climb the peaks of hope, you stroll every possible channel,

Delve the deepest ocean and choke through every hole,

All you found was but the stranger who gaped at you-

You looked away and hatefully left.

Open your eyes, and see the cloud waiting above you

And the sand grain you crush with hatred along your way,

Unearth me in the leaf falling beneath your footprints here,

Heave a sigh when you feel me in the air; I see you smile:

You take away the mirror and spell yourself in me.