UNWAVERING SPIRITS | A Poetry Book

1| The Sky is my Canvas!

My thoughts were precise,
but they thought it didn't have any price!
So I struggled to be there,
Inside the race,
making my place!

Though I didn't realize that by doing this,
I didn't gain any praise,
I was just chasing the chase.
But in the end,
it was all a tall tower without any base!

Finally,
When I tried to be me,
I tried to speak me;
They told me it's not the exact way,
Teaching me how to be the sunshine ray!

They left me as I was different,
They showed their true nature which was irreverent!

When they mocked me on the streets,
I screamed and howled in pain,
It felt like I was drowning in
torrential rain!

Then,
I looked up at that rain and found a sky full of nothingness,
Only the rain was pouring downwards in stillness,
And the moon still shining in peacefulness and chillness,
I could feel my bones into stiffness,
It struck me that I was the only witness!

I didn't back off,
I didn't budge,
I came back again with a full-blown grudge!
I understood my worth,
As It was my new birth!

The sky was my Canvas,
and forever it will be,
And they are nothing but those lifeless stars,
put behind the skies' bars,
trapped in their jars!

I'm that shining and peaceful moon,
A people's boon!
And my song I croon,
Only for the people who, like me, want to break the world's cocoon!

I am a moonlight,
So bright,
that it made these meaningless stars lose their shine and sight.
Now they are in fright,
Afraid of my height,
They thought they were teaching me how to be right,
saying,
come we will give you a ride.

In the midst of all these,
The stars lost their shimmer,
Their extinction is now on the rimmer!

These stars will only appear sometimes to threaten me,
But remember,
I'm an intact moon,
Nothing can ever break or shake me!
As the Sky is my Canvas,
and you, stars,
are nowhere to be seen!

🖤 Based on the topic of:
Underestimation.

Winner of WattpadpoetryIN for this poem!