I Feared UNTIL ......

I feared being alone
Until I learned to like Myself.
I feared failure
Until I realized that I only Fail when I don't try.
I feared success
Until I realized that I had to try in order to be happy with myself.

I feared people's opinions
Until I learned that people would have opinions about me anyway.
I feared rejection
Until I learned to have faith in myself.
I feared pain
Until I learned that it's necessary for growth

I feared the truth
Until I saw the ugliness in lies.
I feared life
Until I experienced its beauty ..
I feared death
Until I realized that it's not an end, but a beginning.

I feared my destiny ,
Until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared hate
Until I saw that it was nothing more than ignorance .
I feared love
Until it touched my heart, making the darkness fade into endless sunny days.

I feared ridicule
Until I learned how to laugh at myself.
I feared growing old
Until I realized that I gained wisdom every day.
I feared the future
Until I realized that Life just kept getting better.
I feared the past
Until I realized that It could no longer hurt me.

I feared the dark
Until I saw the beauty of the starlight.
I feared the light
Until I learned that the Truth would give me Strength.
I feared change,
Until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly had to undergo a Metamorphosis before it could fly.

- Unknown [Send by a friend of mine. This is one of those poems, which made me feel calm and helped me look forward, come what may and now I donot fear Destiny, as I realised that I have the power to change my life. So, just wanted to share it with you]

Reality: Not a Dream…

[Dreams are only dreams
Not to happen in reality
Here my opinions contradict…
I feel my reality should have remained a dream...
I could have erased it from my memory, but...]

Alas! Those wonderful days
The bygone days…
Moments which were so real?
Moments I feel for even now

Those real times I hope
Alive can they still be now?
Nostalgic feelings of every moment
Pure were those times those words…

The only feeling now
Memories those flash by me!
Like a coarse winter breeze
Hope this would have been just a dream…

Dreams never come true
Reality should remain a dream
As days passing by
Am dead once again

The freezing wind
Brings to my mind weird thoughts
Thoughts of me being nowhere
Just reality turned dreams rules now

And I am no more…
Fade away… I say ‘Reality fade away soon’
As a dream does
Let me Live, Let me Dream…

-Chandamita