Shashi Gupta

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What you have been blessed with.
Enrich
The lives of others around and your own.
Relish
The fragrance that permeates your soul.
Bask
In the sunlight giving warmth and life around.
Skip
Over the stones scattered across your path.
Dance
With abandon, like no one is watching.
Pray
To offer gratitude for all the beauty in your life.
Give
With an open heart never expecting a return.
Retire
When the day is done, put down your head and rest.
Joyfully
Reach out
And happily embrace the end when it comes.

Shashi Gupta

The childish chatter, the laughter,
The shrieks of pleasure, 
The incessant questioning,
All went silent one fateful day.
No one noticed the child was missing
Instead kept asking what was it that hurt.
No feverish brow, no upset tummy
Why then was there this sullen silence?
Too busy with the household chores
The sickness of man was overlooked.
Trust was placed on the wrong people
A small child became victim to man's lust
Abused and battered, too scared to speak
She grew up not knowing who to trust.
Ashamed she was, blamed all on self
For not all little girls are made to submit
The days and years all stolen from her
Her childhood turned to a silent hell
Where time and again
Her screams were silenced
Her body ravaged, her spirit killed.
In a shell she lives this woman young
Cringing at the very though of man
How will she ever learn to trust
The man who loves her and treats her best?

Shashi Gupta

What is this thing that claws at my insides,
Ripping me apart to find a way out?
So numb I am, I feel no pain
Bitter memories my broken heart reign.

On the shelves of the chambers, coated in dust
Lie all my dreams and my yesteryears,
Will the clawing ever stop, give my heart some rest,
Or shall I just lie down and turn to dust?

What is this thing that drags me under?
In the waters I float through the storm and thunder.
I try to recall the sweetness that deserted me,
Bitterness forever making a home in me.

My heartbeats have now weakened,
My breath is short and sharp.
The walls of this chamber close in on me,
Memories on a pedestal, the present a waste.

What is this thing that has deadened me so?
Forever drowning in tears I could not shed.
Rip open my heart, give me a new start,
A new life I desire, forever free from pain.