Rise...

I rose

I tumbled

I rose again

But I fell again

Was the floor slippery

Or am I not conscious

Of what I am doing

Screaming at my inability

Shouting at my negligence

Rises some more questions

But I tumbled again

Feeling of lonesome

Surrounds the atmosphere around me

Around me I see people rising

Rising to reach the stars

Steady is their path

Not trodden, clean and straight

Statistics is what if we draw

Linearity is the progress

Working, working hard is what they know

No matter how hard it would be

Unconscious about failure

Rise, rise like a dawn

Each morning, each day

Then it’s me

Watching

Those anxious moments

Moments of success

Which is quite not well versed with me

There it’s me again

Standing in the path

Standing like a rock

Not affected by anything

Looking at the success thrivers

Questions they ask

Am I useless

Am I of no use

Am I retarded

Am I shameless

Don’t I have a goal

Don’t I have an aim

Don’t I have any ambition

Questions, questions, questions

Questions which make me think

Think about all that they say

Think! Think! Think!

Think is all that

I can do

Am being a rock

Acting selfishly like a rock

Without a trail of trying

Trying to be normal like the peer group

I rose

I tumbled

I rose again

But I fell again.

- AJAY KONTHAM