The Cherished Stranger

She seems like a stranger

The girl in these photos

Everything about her is smiling

But the mirror tells me that that girl is me

Time made me lose myself

Who I am isn't who I was

I lost control over thyself

I've drenched myself in a heavy rain

Washing out everything that I had

Making me forget about the girl in the photo

Though, time might have done me a favour

Letting me know what bitter is like

So I would cherish sweetness more than before

Burying me in a deep hole under the ocean floor

So I would dig up with my fingers

And swim breathlessly to where I'd rather be

Keeping me hostage in alternating darkness and light

So I would not give up on a precious thing called hope

Got me hanging on one hand at the edge of a cliff

To teach my soul that giving up is a self-betrayal

The girl in the photo

Stranger or not

I cherish that blissful being

But so long to thee

Far ahead I would be

Hand in hand with all I've gathered

Ready to the next journey that time would bring me