I start as a leaf
By the time they did not count years
By the time when famine struck
The yellow hot ball would always reward me but
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Being yourself means remaining true to the essence in yourself and in your roots and neither being changed by place nor circumstance so as to totally be a stranger to your older self.
Fantastic work, through all the adversity and challenges that life throws, you continue defiant and resilient. The true spirit of humanity is in this poem. Congratulations for poem of the day!
Great poem. Through all the changes this eternal self is the same old self tasting the joys and pains of life. Congratulations for a well deserved member poem place.
Very nice poem indeed. Deserved to be the poem of the day. 'I see a drop, another, then million drops It strengthens me It makes me grow For I know deep inside me I am still my old self'... is very inspiring. Loved it.
For I know deep inside me I am still my old self.... //.... Nothing could be more rewarding than being what you actually are whatever be the time and circumstances, trials and tribulations. Thanks and Congrats.
the wish of every person: to be your old self. Fascinating poem, lovely worded. I have enjoyed very much. Thanks for sharing. A 10 for the poem. CONGRATULATIONS upon being chosen as The Member Poem Of The Day. Hurray! God´s Blessings.
Simply superb is the soliloquy of a simple leaf and its struggles maintaining own characteristics intact. Well deserved poem of the Day. Hearty congrats.
I love the resilience in your poem that says you will not let the world change the real you. This has brightened my day. We always are the same person inside from beginning to end, we only appear outwardly different as we grow. Congratulation on being selected as poem of the day
I am still my old self // beautiful poem penned I am still in the past, in the old, through the whole soul after soul.........///
A well penned poem of the day. Congrats, dear Ma’am Ama on your featured piece...10++++
Grate work. U have penned a beautiful piece and image. Thanks for sharing