Personality

Personality…

I am a poet and so words do my talking 

So I decided to do a bit of waking

To penetrate and pierce the personality

Within me…

It keeps disillusioning every other day

When I reach it I can no longer it, see

Another form, another light in the darkness, 

When I reach the light

It becomes the darkness and swallows me whole, 

Oh how does it roll 

Not even in slight

Can I figure it out… 

I am dumbfounded! 

Every single time!

So I thought penetration in section

More like in layers, 

Like the stories in fiction

The hero after the mystery, 

Only I am hero here 

With my personality as the mystery, 

Though unarmed, I build the courage

No, I don’t expect bloodshed, 

Well, its my shadow after all, 

The unknown twin, 

Whose identity I need to unmask, 

My personality…

The battlefield is calmness

Of course, its silent wars that we wage 

The kinds that need more brain than brawn

Unarmed, yet no less withered, 

Shining like the sun at dawn

I leave for war with my own self 

Well I know it won’t be easy 

I might discover joy and pain

Sometimes joyous pain

Whatever but no regret 

Cause I want to go all the way, 

Cause I believe I am worth knowing, 

It might be a haiku

Or another 100 poems, 

But I will know me

I want to…

Cause I am worth knowing 

Not just by others

But my own reflection too! 

- Shafika