Written by Asish Sridhar
Edited by Jairaj Vij
Artwork by Hoonesha Peter
The door opens, you cut the ribbon and step through.
It's your birthday, 18, a whole new world but wait where exactly are you?
It’s a whole new world but why does it just feel the same. Is it just you?
Turn the head, a look back, what was missing, is there something you lack
Bend the knee, things looked higher up then but now you find that you
Might have been mistaken.
The new obstacles, a new height, your strength, might, not enough.
A blurring of sight, an expansion of night, except now it’s your fight as you roam around alone searching with your narrow flashlight.
But the light isn’t enough.
My shoulders heavy, they struggle to bear the weight, is this what had come out of that wait?
I couldn’t wait to grow up, I couldn’t wait to be free, I couldn’t wait to be independent but I didn’t realise how wrong I would be as I had rushed through the life where I had been carefree.
Sunlight shining bright, running along the meadow, covered in dirt from head to toe, legs rooted in whatever things I wanted to know, spread to all the places I wanted to go and sow the skills I wanted to grow.
Now it was time for the reaping.
But then I wasn’t afraid to get dirty, maybe because I didn’t have to worry about what could hurt me because I had people watching over me.
I wait and wait and I am forced to choose, do I have anything to lose?
Out of the nest, back in the cage, suddenly a sage just because I had finally come of age?
A dream job or so it seemed, just another part of this grand scheme.
I had become an adult and I couldn’t choose if I liked it.
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