Show me your soul..
how much of it is yours?
How much borrowed?
Are you more than
just pieces of
steel,
polished to a glint?
Cold and invincible?

Or do you
live
hurt
melt
pulse
breathe?

Does you life
belong to you?

Are you
together
alone
whole
splintered?

Are you
no one else
but you?

Can you be touched
reached
moved
shaken
stirred?

Do your edges
shrink
when a smile
reaches out with
shaky fingers?

Do you stop to feel, hear
your heart beat?
Do you sing?
Dance?
Laugh?
Fly?
Do you hug
yourself and say ‘Try’?

Do you break walls
with a song?
Do you walk the distance
to right a wrong?

Do you know
you are alive?
And that your life is yet to arrive?

Reema Moudgil is the author of  Perfect Eight (http://www.flipkart.com/b/books/perfect-eight-reema-moudgil-book-9380032870?affid=unboxedwri )