--- title: Why Me? date: 2014-10-29T05:15:15Z modified: 2025-01-24T13:08:51Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/me/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1593 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/why_me.jpg" featured_image_alt: why me author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2025-01-24T13:08:51Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![why me](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/why_me.jpg) I am exhausted walking on life’s highway, trying to keep pace in this frantic journey i take 10 steps forward only to be dragged 20 steps backwards, by invisible hands that come out of nowhere. tearing me apart from within, i struggle to find a [meaning](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/life-still-has-a-meaning.md) to all this, why me? why now? what did i do to deserve this? injustice? perhaps. unfair? most likely. as the lights on the horizon grow dimmer and dimmer, my pace trickling down to a crawl i look for a sign, i seek out assistance, but all that i get is [empty](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/empty-chair.md) assurances; with one last heave, i pulled myself up and began this journey slowly, at my own pace, towards the horizon, unmindful of the speed the world is moving at, slowly, steadily and in the [shadows](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/escape-into-the-shadows.md) where no one can see me! Why me? [image via](http://donnareidland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/why-me11.jpg)