NaPoWriMo Day 14 Poem: I Am Learning

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 14: Write a poem on the theme, “I wanted to learn this for a long time.”

 

Poem: I Am Learning

 

One step forward

I take

Just one…

 

But

suddenly

something pulls me back

 

A voice in my head

cautions me,

reminds me of my past

 

I resist.

Past, I tell her

Isn’t it gone?

 

It ignores my words

Comes back

with force

 

More memories it brings along

To keep me trapped

in the shadow of what’s gone

 

I feel weak,

even incomplete

The absence of the past haunts me

 

Is reality too bad?

I ask myself

I argue with that voice

 

It smirks

clouding my judgment

with a dense layer of fog

 

I contest

I plead

I struggle

 

It insists

It persists

It overpowers

 

I feel inept

I cry, I wail

I have an urge to surrender

 

But something inside

denies to die

refuses to be imprisoned

 

I hold on to it–

The little bird of hope

With wings of courage

 

It lifts me from the ground

Unties me from my binds

Past, it says, let it go

 

I follow its voice

I fly along with it

Liberated, I feel

 

I fall back sometimes

But I remind myself

I am learning

 

I am learning to fly

I am learning to rise

I am learning to let go

 

©Vandana Bhasin

14.04.2026