CBSE Affiliation No. 1030239 Jhalaria Campus North Campus
CBSE Affiliation No. 1030239

I Become

A poem by Ms Abhilasha Umahiya, Educator


Dawn seeps into me
with its moisture and cool breaths
and I become the dawn
all vermilion – 
prepared to dissolve myself
into the heart of a blazing day.

The sun doesn’t burn me.
How can it?
I am its own ray.

Fiercely, I fall on the Earth
but humbly, she gives me an identity.
I become the newly sprouted sapling
stretching its arms
towards the sky and 
roots groping the unknown.

Suddenly, I grow into cottony feathers
and wind carries me
wherever it pleases.

I don’t lose my existence
anywhere – anytime to anything.
I only become.

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