Threshold

Why is it that I'm always on the threshold?

Too scared to step in, too reluctant to step back

Peeping into the world beyond anxiously

Dreaming shamelessly of the joys on the other side

Quenching my thirst and hunger with all silly joys

The inner world might offer me aplenty

Still I have my one foot in air always

Why is it that I'm always on the threshold??

Be it anything, always two sides I have

In and out.. If in looks too cosy, out looks too tempting

Why is it that I always stand confused

At the threshold of all major steps in life

The threshold seems home to me now

I teach myself to be happy here

The threshold sometimes seems scary

What if I grow my roots here forever!!

My friends have gone past me into the world beyond

They lovingly slow at my threshold,see me,care me

The usual "hi-bye" happens, & off they leap forward

Leaving me behind like a loser peeping from the threshold

Some have stayed longer with me here , at the steps

And I mistook they are my soul mates, friends for life

And then one fine day, I see they too had their eyes yonder the threshold

Even as they embraced me,they dreamt of beyond & bid me farewell soon

I still remained, at the threshold

Cold and scared,now loneliness maddened me

Why is it that I'm still on the threshold?

Stepping in may not be the thing for me..I now realise

Why did I not turn back atleast once?

I was always too proud to give a look back - always too hurried to succeed

Turning back, I saw my world, my land, my people

Waiting to bestow upon me with all joy and success-

I now stepped back from the threshold...

Hopefully for the better times.