The damage in you is so necessary.
Your wounds make you strong.
You learn to heal with life's woes.
What we always crave for
Is not what life is all about.
Isn't it an irony?
Happiness is what we always crave for.
But life is not always about happiness.
Life is a mixture of sweet and the bitter.
It will break you, tear you, damage you.
It will leave you lone, deserted, puzzled.
We question God when we are sad.
Why don't we question Him
And seek His light,
When we are happy too?
The damage in us is as important,
As the happiness in us.
You will never know what goodness is,
If you haven't tasted the worse.
You will never know
How healing feels like,
If you haven't experienced
The damage in you...
Copyright Shaheen Akhtar.