--- title: Waiting for the night date: 2008-03-18T11:23:32Z modified: 2008-03-18T11:23:32Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/waiting-for-the-night/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 173 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-03-18T11:23:32Z tags: - Life Poems --- Sun – the ultimate torch shining down on all lighting up them all everything is alive everyone is buzzing/active eyes all around ears everywhere i put on my mask live a happy life every [day](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md) blissfully unaware life goes on for all they see is the happy mask what we see is what we believe we hear it everywhere we read it in all but the all seeing eyes fails to pierce this mask that the world sees in me the world believes is the truth thats why, i wait for [the dark](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) night when there is no light when the eyes are shut and the ears go deaf i sit down in the corner open my eyes watch the [stars](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/stars-dark.md) twinkling and shining and the eternal darkness all around with only the eerie [silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) to keep me company and in the glow of the moon i begin my quest in search of the special one who will tear down the mask that i wear …….. i wait patiently alone in this theatre of life for the days are long and the [nights](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/nights-like-these.md) are short i am waiting for the [night](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/rhythm-of-the-night.md) to fall to begin my quest all over again in the eternal search of the one who will put an end to this drama i am waiting for the night i am waiting for the life to begin… ———————————————————————————- A reflection of the last 2 years of my life 🙂