‘Is happiness a free sky?’: Poem by Anushka Sharma, Apeejay School, Noida

I shall fade away within these hidden skies

    While my heart longed to skin deeper 

             in these smiles          

         Praying to the lord everyday that happiness

                       isn’t just a lie

        Where the mountain of dreams lies

      Hear the still sound of these echoing cries

         There weeps a child

 Only this time keeping reality in mind

Even though imagination seems more divine

       Why get lost in the dull all the time

      With eyes closed and heart wide open

      Will the clock for us beings ever rewind 

Shall we keep living this way till the day we die

Whilst the writer of heaven writes the epilogue of our lives with a deep sigh

A down to earth mind envies the flock that is now flying high

Right before our very sight

Exhausting all their will with eyes burning with passion

They grasp all the light regardless of how dark and colder the nights

Hanging onto the last branch like the last leaf on a vine during fall

They keep letting go of all their flights 

“Oh lord I preach once again is happiness really a free sky?”