Stars Never Shine Without Their Soul Poem by Parisha Shukla

I grew—
And somewhere, in another universe,
my younger self would've never imagined.

I thought,
I looked,
I realised—
How do people change in such a way?
But who knows?
Maybe it was me who changed.

It doesn't reflect the nature—
Narcissist,
Overly sweet,
Bold,
Mean.

So people wonder,
"How have you changed without becoming this? "
But I ask—
Maybe, maybe you're the one who changed me so beautifully,
that it never needed a title to be.

I wake up every day with a hope:
"Something, something will change."
And when the day ends at twelve,
I thank God for a good day—
Good never meant good for me;
It meant a lesson for my further life,
a reminder that I don't have to worry again, breaking along with me.

We smile,
we laugh,
we cry,
we stare—
not with someone, but with myself.

Because, i believed in such a way,
Stars never shines without their soul.