There Was Once A Time
written by: Talat Aafreen
There was once a time
The sky was rainbow filled.
Springy feet danced askew
Music made the heart lift.
As life dealt its blows,
The rainbows fled,
The music waned,
Blue and purple
Bruises appeared
Some buried deep within.
Even though I can’t feel the pain
Sometimes
When I rub a sore spot
I wonder
When I got this hurt,
This pain
Now a way of life.
The sky is a wide expanse of blue
Across a broad, hard earth.
No dance,
No more the music,
Only a long endless road
That I have to take
I have to carry on.
Talat Aafreen is a student of English Literature by training and a civil servant by profession, and is based in Odisha, India. She feels her travels and interaction with people during the course of her career have greatly enriched her as a person and reflect in her writing. When she’s not writing, she reads, cooks and paints.
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