Poem - Emerging From the Shadows, Poetess - Omatee Ann Marie Hansraj (Trinidad and Tobago)
Emerging From the Shadows
Omatee Ann Marie Hansraj
For years, I walked in borrowed light,
A fading echo, dim, not bright.
Measured steps in footprints old,
A story lived, but never told.
Their voices shaped the path I knew,
Their dreams decided what I’d do.
Yet in the silence, soft but clear,
A whisper rose—my own was near.
Who am I, beyond their gaze?
A soul unbound by scripted plays.
A fire caged for far too long,
Yet still it burns, still it’s strong.
No more mirrors, no more chains,
No more drowning in their names.
I rise, I stand, I claim the sky
This is my life—I won’t live a lie.
Omatee Ann Marie Hansraj
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Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published from Aurangabad, MSD, W.B. Editor - Md Ejaj Ahamed
Swapner Vela Sahitya Patrika (The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine) is a Bilingual magazine in which Bengali and English literature are published by Md Ejaj Ahamed from Aurangabad, Murshidabad, W. B, India
