When festivities are at our doorstep
A flood of messages of best wishes pour in;
Some from the heart but most without a soul,
Just a formality that makes one feel like a dustbin.
So, when I sat down to write
What I wished for the people I know,
All that prosperity, health, joy and success messages I got
Buried my brain deep in the snow.
After a jolt from my conscience and a nudge from queen empathy,
I jumped out from the cold land of pretention;
I realized that most people fall in the acquaintance category,
Though, for them, my mind has every good thought and intention.
Shall I make a wish for the people I care about
And for those who are distant but matter to me?
How about a common wish for all that is more like a true prayer,
Pure with positive energy and nothing plucked from the show-off tree?
Shall I make a wish that God or the Cosmic energy
Keeps them warm with the love of their family every night?
Shall I pray that they have the strength to fight every battle
To achieve their goals and be guided towards the light?
Shall I pray that may we all learn to forgive others people’s mistakes
Which will give us all good health and mental peace?
Shall I ask for them to be grateful to others,
Just like I have learnt to do every day with ease?
Shall I make a wish for our planet and mother nature
To not be tortured anymore?
Shall I make a wish that all of us forgive ourselves daily
And do good deeds without keeping a score?
What would be a better way to wish anyone on any special occasion
Than to add them and their loved ones to our daily prayer list;
But never letting them know because love is to spread,
Not to take credit as life is to live, not just to exist.
Vizzmaya is a wanderer in the land of stories and an explorer in the sea of poetry. She is 10 years old but her life’s experiences make her writing age faster but gracefully. She is awaiting for the release of not just her first book but all her 7 e-books via Amazon by the end of November, titled- Vizzmaya’s wonderland (parts 1 to 7) which contain poems, stories, write-ups and jingles. She hopes they add positive energy to the lives of everyone who reads them and is passed on to others for their betterment.
Vizzmaya Jalal, a Class 5 student of St. Francis ICSE school, Mumbai, is a poetess, a writer, an aromatherapist, a herbalist, a classical singer, a classical dancer, a keyboard player, a basketball and chess player and a linguist who speaks 9 languages. She is an iron girl who sees her bedridden mother medically suffer like hell each day and yet inspires and motivates her to fly higher with the help of my maternal grandfather’s positive energy and take others along with her beyond the clouds of earthly problems and pain to a peaceful place where spirituality and science live together in harmony; thus staying true to her name, Vizzmaya which means wonderment.