Unknown

Beyond the mountains the sun rose

Through the slits the light flows

Awakens she again, smiling at the dawn

Hoping she'd live a life, she'd always longed

She smells the morning hoping for a day of her own,

Someone with a story knocks on her door,

She speaks not a word, till the end she hears

Quietly inside her, his shoes she wears

Inside his shoes she walks, as his stories haunt her

Of her own life she forgets, surrenders to his

She walks miles as his life engulfs her

Of her own smile she forgets, begins to wear his

She lives his life until she masks her with his

She begins to feel his pain, unmindful of her own

And when she smiles she often forgets, the joys are not her own 

In his life she had found, a joy of her own

At the turn by the curb, she stumbles and wakes up

Her mind opens, of her own life, she remembers

She vows not to give in, into another's shoes again

She walks home with dreams, of a tomorrow of her own

She slips into the night, thinking of a life she'd always longed

Dreams she again, of the hopeful morrow

Dawns it again, barely like it was foretold

There's a knock on her door again, yet, she's bold

Another story awaits her heed

Another pair awaits her heel

Lives again she unfairly, another person's life

Thwarted her soul recluses, gives up her smile

There came a time when she forgot who she was

It was the world she was in herself, the mirror too gave up

She lived many a life, but not once her own

Every time they knocked, she slid into unknown   

- Deepak Karamungikar