Those that I gave up
I am defined by my performances on stage.
By the years I spent in my ghungroos.
By the dance I began perfecting since a very young age.
I am a culmination of the poems I put out to the world.
Of pages inked with pieces of me.
Of stories I've longed for to be heard.
I am shaped by the alien language I took up.
By the unfamiliar phrases I adopted.
By the endless turning of the dictionary for words to look up.
But I'm also the half painted canvas on my table.
The barely touched art supplies.
The quiet promise of creativity of perhaps which I'm incapable.
The mere three chords on the guitar I can strum,
they too are a part of me.
When life falls too silent, they're a comforting memory I hum.
My hobbies that I gave up, outnumber those I carried to the end.
But perhaps it's enough that I tried,
another gentle way for my soul to mend.
Incomplete though they remain,
they serve as a reminder,
of the times I dared to wander outside my domain.