A flickering candle
flickered on the table,
As I reflected back
to all that was a fable,
A tale, a lie to
protect my sweet innocence,
I slowly realized,
what they did made sense.
My childhood used
to be a very happy one,
No worries, no
cares, simply filled with fun,
But somewhere down
the road, my path did change,
For the better or
for the worst, as a mountain range.
The wicked trickery
of life had tricked me too,
As the wick of the
candle fell, I had no clue,
That life was meant
to take away my innocence,
It was never ever
protected by a simple fence.
Blowing away the
rhythm that had my heart beating,
I knew that this
act by life was somehow cheating,
Winding down the
road I had taken, I felt sad,
Cause life would’ve
been so good and not so bad.
My thoughts kept
flickering like the candle before me,
Here & there, I
was tossed like being in a sea,
With the loss of
something so simple, pure & real,
I had suddenly
grown up to face the world, so surreal.
I learnt the hard
way that Santa wasn’t real,
That I had been
taught the world without its peel,
That reindeers
& elves were simply a cooked up tale,
And my Dad had
actually never set on a sail.
Time always had
something new in store for me,
But this wasn’t
something I wanted to be,
A meteor had
crashed, leaving me upside down,
And all I could do
now was look back and frown.
The realities I
learned had shaken me to the core,
My life would never
remain the same, no more,
Realising that the
source of all my pleasure and fun,
Were simply lies
piling up under the scorching sun.
The candle had
almost lit up, an inch or so left,
Penning down my
thoughts, before it becomes bereft,
But somewhere, deep
within, I had accepted the fact,
Between nature and
man, it was a simple pact.
My life had already
synced with this new found life,
Which is
double-edged, as sharp as a butcher’s knife,
People, who would,
given a chance, push you away,
Leaving you alone,
lonely & bereft, ending your day.
My ally, the candle
was slowly breathing its last,
My time was up, to
finally relive the past,
With the last
flickering glow of the candlelight,
I give up my
innocence, resolving in my plight………..
