A year older.

I am a year older today,

Waking upto a society that –

Raises more questions than I would ever answer.

Once again, a year more of disappointment-

For they will never be fine with the answers I give.

I am a year older today,

Knowing that I have cheated myself,

My dreams and my passion.

May be not apparently.

I never showed that to you!

I now  feel the pain,

I sense it a bit deeper-

A year can make us more human perhaps.

I am not sure.

But I am, a bit more kind today.

A  year has went by,

With goodbye kisses

And strange meetings.

A year has left ,

With nothing more than memories

That forever stays-

Or stays forever forgotten.

To look back is scary,

For I have crossed oceans –

I never knew I could.

I have fought battles-

Which I knew would kill me.

Yet I breathe today.

I am a year older today-

To things that once melt my heart

And left it aching.

And I am a year older today-

To life that is fair enough in its unfairness.