Such is the colorful symphony of life Where the brightest color can lie and leave you astray Some merge with one another While others fade away In the heart of success Things get fallen in the pit The ball eventually falls back As hard as it was hit In the end, I plead and cry Oh prisoner, do you really know why? In the midst of storms that come without warning Blurring predictability And the boundaries they’d been carving I found an urgent craving To bring life to a standstill Unfolding the knotted questions And the burdens of going uphill In that fleeting spell of time Darkened streets found illumination And though I halted for a while It sowed the seed for reinvention In the end, a longing sigh Oh prisoner, do you really know why? In the depths of the interlude It came knocking on my door As I digressed into excursions Through the faces that it bore Like a bird with all its’ feathers Yearning to be set free Revealing the unseen The reality of a wilting tree And showing all heart, it spoke to me “Now you’ll make it” In the end, an earnest vow Oh prisoner, do you really know how? As I sailed back along the changing tides And the sun began to set Melting away the snowy hills And the eyes began to rest All the lessons learnt came undone And growth pointed towards the sky Lighting a different slippery path Taking us to a new high For each journey comes with a million answers And a million questions for the next Until it knocks the wind out of you And ends the struggles of an ongoing quest In the midst of life, we are in death Do you feel an instant regret? And though I try to count till ten Oh prisoner, do you really know when? The writer has an MBBS from LMDC and has a penchant for arts, music and poetry. She can be reached at bushra_waraich_93@hotmail.com Published in Daily Times, June 7th 2018.