Clearer Skies

How far have I come

From the scary nights

To these starry skies

And this magical glow?

It feels like a decade past

The bruises of the cold and the hot;

Never had I fathomed

That I’d suffer such a blow.

They say “pain’s inevitable

But suffering’s optional”;

But I didn’t know it, so I endured;

And now I only see daylight ahead.

Divine light encapsulates me,

And the past feels far away;

Leaving behind the less better days,

Now I go on, thoroughly done and dusted.

Fresh air waits for me,

And flowers greet me with their bloom;

Wonder and joy embrace me once again,

As I walk towards bliss with my hands free.

-Jaanvi Veluguleti

Perennial Poetry