A new life entices a young boy
with gleaming lights and wide roads
He misses the land he comes from
not as prosperous, but far more
beautiful
Where honour is a liberty earned
and conversations have more depth than
words
As the fast paced life tries to grip his
soul
Memories from the past, set him free
He remembers a smile on the lips of an
angel
and remembers how she hugged him last
Faring well, for the voyage he was
embarking upon
Not knowing, when they’d see each other
again
He knows not if she will feel his
absence
but he wishes she wouldn’t, at the cost
of her smile
He checks if she’s available to say a
“hello”
but she has her own life to go on with
And he smiles, knowing she has went on
with hers
and he, smiling, goes on with his
He remembers the land he left, and is
grateful to it
For all it taught, for all opportunities
it gave
Selflessly, so the boy could survive
anything the world threw at him
Lessons of the soil, are all he carried
lessons of the soil, was all he needed
His life becomes now a testimony, to the
place which renewed his soul
Which gave him an identity, higher than
his own
He promises to honour it, with his life
and might
For years, he was revered for where he
came from
Time has come, for his land to be
revered for what he is
He remembers the tears of a mother,
worrying in anticipation
She wonders who will take care of her
child in a foreign land
she’s scared if he might forget her in
the blazing lights
But she also understands her upbringing
wouldn’t let him
and he would survive in the harshest
conditions without a flinch
He was taught well, with love and
anguish alike
She loved him, tutored him, nurtured him
and also freed him
For she knows love is tested, when it
comes to letting go
for the biggest test of love arrives
when you let go of the one thing you love the most
And it takes a mother’s love to be able
to do so
He promises himself to respect her love,
trust and upbringing
he promises himself, to come back to
her, an evolved man
When life trained him in success and
failure
In wisdom and knowledge, in ambition and
content
and when the world said there has been
enough learning
Life gave him a higher standard to learn
a bigger battle, with bigger rewards
He prays to keep himself together,
during this new voyage
he hopes to grow, not change in the
foreign land
He smiles, at the unique challenge life
found him worthy of
he promises to honour that quest,
embarked to him
And whenever the fast paced life tries
to grip his soul
Memories from the past, set him free
Vishal Gupta
August 27th, 2013
