i am not the one i was once

I am not the one as I used to be, Dancing and laughing merrily, No matter what the life brings before, It doesn't matter and nothing was a bore. I have changed now with time, Time has ruined me and broken my spine, I am not able to see in my eyes, Not even the morning sun to rise. I feel so blue and away from the world, No one to talk or even share a word, I am like a gold leaf whom every one adored, But never tried to know what pain it has gone through. I am shattered and broken into pieces, As if someone hit me with a bat of base, No one is there to join me again in one, No one is there to hold my hand in this race. I am aloof from the crowd, Standing away and watching all, May seasons have passed by now, From the summer, winter and now fall. Jyoti Joseph