A Ray of Hope

Between night and day

There lurks a ray

Scared of dark and light

Putting up a lone fight

To remain aloof and survive

Outside the realm of strife

That marks shine and moor

Persevering against the lure

of being adopted by the Sun

as a sparkle that can stun

bright twinkling stars

and timid moon with scars…

The night too can claim

the ray to be tame

and follow the Milky Way

to be lost in the spray

of white wave rippling through the sky!

Oh why! Oh why?

The ray cannot be its own

Survive, thrive, though forlorn

Can’t there be

Without the tapestry,

A life beyond the known-

a life that has borne

the struggle for it to be

What it could never be…

The choice of light or night

A battle that it could not fight

Nor give up too…

Because such rays, there are only few.