A Thought

Sitting far away from Homeland,

thinking about my people,

my country, my dreams;

I wake up with a tear drop,

A terror seeing Shadow in Darkness.
In search and certainty of Shadow I see;
Here I begin my search for Light;
Light that shows us Way and Hope;
Light that lets the Dark Shadows

Disappear.

1998 © Ruchi Kochhar

I wrote this poem sometime in 1998 when we lived in US, desiring to be back in India. We returned in early 2005.