Love thy self ....

I am beautiful as me .

Not for my colleagues

Or my long lost lovers

For my friends mostly

For my family muchly

And surely in my fantasies ! 

I am beautiful as me.

Else why do they keep telling me?

In laughs and chit chats

In long winded yarns 

Tales today 

Recaps tomorrow 

I am beautiful as me .

For the strangers I've passed 

And those I will meet.

In my forgotten dreams of yesterday

And my exhausted today 

Maybe in the to be tomorrow ...

I am beautiful as me.

For the scars I carry.

I'm too much ..said he,

I laughed later.... Really ? 

I live , laugh , love. 

I cry , scowl , growl. 

I am beautiful as me.

Some hurts don’t heal.

Some tears don’t dry.

Some memories don’t fade.

Smiling forgotten.

Laughter squashed.

Lost in translation.......

The passage of Time.

Teardrop

I didn’t say a word.

The heart clenched

The breath stopped.

The tear refused to fall.

Stumped.

Stunned.

Broken.

The tear refused to fall.

I nodded in silence.

The “may I speak” frozen on my lips.

I heard it all.

The tear refused to fall.

Flashes of a lifetime gone.

Fears of not again.

Swaying unconsciously.

Staring into oblivion.

The tear refused to fall.

“Take a deep breath” said the good angel sitting on my shoulder.

“You’re a failure” said the bad angel on the other one.

A fairy fluttered around out of her depth.

Real life hit.  

The tear finally dropped.