I am looking for a candle,
To light up the sky.
I am a wanderer,
Wandering in the growing darkness…
Tears in my blazing eyes.

 

How will it be then,
The sky so bleak and grey?
The horizon which is a dot
In the uncertain distance,
Will it be a sight of daybreak?

 

I’ve never tried before,
Lighting up the sky,
With just a candle.
In the unruffled glow,
I hope to find serenity.

 

There is life in my silence.
There is meaning to my grief.
I am destined to live
In a newer world.
Shall I ever find it?

 

The sun took away my head,
For vagrant offerings,
Against many scattered lies.
I hear the sound of the hour.
I read the writing on the wall.

 

Now, I am looking for a candle,
To light up the sky.
So thought I,
Wandering in the growing darkness…
Tears in my blazing eyes.

 

 

Dubai
2012

                          

Geeta Chhabra

 

From the book: Smash My Glass by Geeta Chhabra