the way people find their
hopes and smiles in sunrise,
I seem to feel my light at night,
might the darkness scare them
but the ocean of black
with stars as sparkling waves
rather please my skin and thoughts.
Even the empty sky
with its flourishing beauty
feels so real just like time
as if even the sky has days
when the stars won't shine
and instead of hiding behind the dark,
it gleams the world
with its glittery dark
No, it does not depress me as others
to look at a starless sky,
it inspires to be like it,
face what comes before the eyes
because even the sky knows,
the stars, sooner or later will arrive
and just like that,
after minutes pass some time,
the eyes there,
just randomly scroll up
with nothing to search or find
amidst the paint of the night,
a star, just a star,
twinkling away from far behind
falls into my eyes.
At that very moment
there's something I find,
my lips, in a wide arc,
quiet and my head
in the black clouds,
wondering about nothing,
just floating still
until the real world
pushes my conscious back to earth,
again.
© Pragati Jain