I Walk Alone..

I Walk Alone..

It has been a long journey,

Trials and tribulations,

Meandering and swirling,

With the hurricane and sunshine,

I walk alone.

Sometimes with fortitude and conviction,

Sometimes cowering in fear,

Of unknown shadows and darkness prevails,

Life is one long journey,

I walk alone.

The box of memories I treasure,

Which opens in portals of dreams,

Or when in intoxication I lie,

The life I had once, the heady cocktail,

Of freedom and comfort,

Enhances my solitude,

I walk alone.

The sound of parties, the perfumes that linger,

Of family I had, pampered and loved,

Cotton wooled in security,

The youth and friends,

It seemed a never ending script,

Rapturous and ecstatic the symphony,

I walk alone.

The unrelenting storms,

The lashing rains,

People I lost and one's I loved,

No marker can bring them back,

Nor any eraser change the predicament,

Yet the path I tried on,

The things I did, my actions and deeds,

Not one thing would I wish to change,

For I fought alone,

Alone I walk.

What future holds, I scarce care,

What past I had, is locked in my box,

The moments I live,

Is no accident or serendipity,

But just pray, that till my bells toll,

My mind and soul holds sangfroid,

The dignity and respect I earned,

By sweat and actions,

Justifies my end, my bucket list nonetheless,

I shall walk with chin up,

I walk alone.

Shrapnels of words bitter,

Lies embedded in my heart and soul,

The wounds that shall not heal,

The one's that I will carry to my grave,

For always standing out in a crowd of cowards,

But thousand times shall I defy the norm,

Of society and hypocrisy,

I fear no death nor scars I bear,

For I walk alone.