--- title: I am trying date: 2008-08-11T09:40:44Z modified: 2008-08-11T10:04:15Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/i-am-trying/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 345 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/a-free-soul.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-08-11T10:04:15Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![a-free-soul](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/a-free-soul.jpg) standing at the twilight i seek answers for the future that i know nothing about footsteps that i have left behind have been [carefully](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/care.md) redrawn to hide the stumbles and the scars that they have left! sympathy, i do not seek; money, i do not care a dime; riding the wave of struggles and hardship that brought me here, i stand all alone; explanations, i do not need for the past; life has become a big question for which i am seeking a simple answer – to live or to [die](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/how-did-you-die.md)! like the silkworm, i built a cocoon to protect me from this ungrateful world! now when i am ready to fly out i have nowhere to go to! standing at the twilight, not afraid of [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) that surrounds me i am just seeking a simple answer i am just trying to live [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md)!