The joy of life disappeared with time,
she lost the smile and glint in her eyes.
The want to explore the earth and want to unfold the world,
faded away like an old thought.

She does smile now but it's not the same,
the one with which she loved the globe and people aboard.
I am afraid, it's not her.
Miracle is that she still stands hoping things would be better tomorrow,
hopes she will reach her goals,
though fragile she does not let herself fall.
But now she is not the girl once she was.
Everyone is there to support but she hasn't healed yet to win the war.

Now I see pain and fear in those eyes ,
which once had thrill and enthusiasm for life.
I hear the call for help in a testy tearful voice through her tear filled eyes.
Tears don't seem to stop, like rain erodes soil they have eroded her happiness in life '.

Now I see no hope, no thought,
I believe she is lost.
Lost in reality of world to which she was guarded for too long.
I don't know wether she is lost forever or just for now,
but I can't wait too long.

I feel it all in my heart when I see this,
to which I came across searching for that smile.........I see myself in the photograph. With small sweater and small shoes, with plenty of dreams in those eyes and that smile.
Ten years back that was my gracious plight.

Winter was then but cold it is now,
my breath is cold and I wait for my heart to be.
For I have lost the girl I had been.


I lost the smile,I lost the thrill,
I lost joy, I lost the glint,
I lost myself in this journey of life.
I hope I find myself at some point of time.
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