An Experience That Changed My Life

By Sakshi Arya

In the past, I’ve been ashamed of the experience that changed my life,

But overtime I came to love what I became.

This here, is a little piece of my heart;

A major experience that changed my Life in every possible way.

— and now I can’t be broken,

cos what builds you, can’t break you apart.

1. you said, you’d be there when I wake up,
2. but when I did, you were gone.
3. why didn't you keep your promise?
4. i kept waiting for so long.

5. you turned up after years,
6. i thought all would be fine.
7. but you had moved on,
8. and I was there, looking at you,
9. searching for someone else inside.

10. -Subdued

11. you left me years ago
12. and now you're back at last
13. maybe it was fate
14. or just me, trying really hard.
15. i wanted you to fix things
16. and you were as uninterested,
17. as you once were, in those years,
18. from my hoarded past.
19. this feeling is unkempt, so hollow
20. where i have so much to say,
21. so much to ask.
22. but you, my father, still carry your haughtiness
23. learnt nothing so far. they tell me fathers are loving
24. mine, though, once left me to starve
25. i’m glad, i learnt from that lamenting
26. it instilled me with courage
27. and became my lodestar.

28. -frustrated by your longueurs, i now hold my league strong
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