Hope a Conquest
Amrita B.
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I recently moved to the US from India and my pieces each reflect different emotions centred around my move. Moving halfway across the globe is stressful enough and my first piece 'Hope - A Conquest' talks about how I wake up everyday to find the smallest of things inspiring me to be hopeful when things seem bleak and out of control. My second piece 'The Searing Shadow' throws light on how I felt when I was thrown into a world unfamiliar to me. It's sad and dark, just like how I felt - invisible and unknown. Finally, my last piece 'The Pursuing Raindrop' compares a raindrop falling on the window to life and its uncertainties. The undefined route of the raindrop is comparable to the unpredictability of life. I wrote this when I got to know I was soon going to migrate which to me was something I never imagined in my life. The poem goes on to talk about how the raindrop lets go of some part while adding on to itself to finally reach its destination, in a way asking myself to let go and move on. All these pieces are very personal to me and are open to interpretation for people to relate to them with their own situations in life.
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I often find myself writing when I have a lot of emotion in me-both positive and negative. Overtime I have realised that by putting my feelings and thoughts in phrases with a self-tuned rhythm gives me a direction. I end up being my own master, well-aware of my actions and it gives me a perspective.
