I Learned To Be A Man That Night...

Somewhere far from the land of dreams,

I was awake in the mysteries of life.

Somewhere far from the vivid imagination,

I was pondering as the moon castled the stars.

While the world slept and the clock displayed a bright two,

I managed to sort my priorities with the questions like what, why and who?.

While the others shut their eyes and rested themselves,

I worked to find the inner soul which kept me on.

I traveled through the distances of  expectations,

I crossed the boulders of happiness,

I stopped at the tolls of pain,

I walked again at the paces of realizations.

I took with me, the skill of understanding.

I left behind the crankiness, and ego.

I took with me, the happiness to compromise,

I left behind the urge to ask returns of my favors.

I put myself way above the cloudy sky that night,

And then reminded myself to step the earth at all times,

I reminded myself the qualities possessed,

and proofed myself, the witness of my common touch.

That night, I slept with the lightness of forgiving someone,

Maybe that someone was me.

That  night, I slept with the sense of understanding someone,

Maybe that someone was me.

The following morning, woke up, not a boy but a Man,

and that surely, was me.

For I had that night, learned what is life.

Tanishq Sharma

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