Lost In Starlight

When I slided from my mom’s belly with fear, 
Blinded by bright lights never seen before, 
Terrific currents of air blocking my breath made me blubber, 
Born with a pretty face!!! 
First thing I did hear. 
Ever since that moment I realized, 
My face could help me wherever I go 
I made hundereds of women fall for me 
Some were even ready to sleep with me 
People got decepted that I was a Genius 
Help came in every form to defend my supposititious image 
Always kept wondering where this attractiveness of mine would pull me to??? 
Atlast my quest did have a HALT!!! 
It made me stand in front of a Man-Made Eye!!! 
  
The Eye that could capture everything that faces him, 
One needs to be careful in front of him, 
Cause he reproduces everything exactly the way it is; 
Things deceiving the creator blessed ones that we possess, 
Could be accurately traced by his magnificent lens. 
Coudn’t remember when we became good pals 
As I stand facing him I be myself, 
He made me look much better on screen than how I appeared to be. 
As emotions oozed out of me,I felt things as I did it, 
I uncorked all the hidden feelings inside me,  
Kept unearthing good treasures in me,  
To fortify the actor in me. 
  
They called me an Entertainer,A Performer 
Ladies coined their cute own nick names for me, 
They say I am their husband in their dreamworlds, 
Some even bore me good looking younglings too,I was told 
Craziness trailed wherever I set my foot in. 
Soon the Starlight engulfed me, 
Which took me to incredible heights , 
Where I could feel my own existence,  
While others of my kind turning so green on my presence. 
Acquiring Fame,Name and Wealth 
I became a family man of five families 
Five wives ,Ten Children 
Enough to suffocate a normal human. 
But I wasn’t ready to spend my valuable time with them then, 
My thirst for enticements in life was yet unquenched, 
Because everything came the way I wanted it to. 
  
Little by little I did notice, 
The starlight which projected me to this world once, 
Started showing the genuine world around me by fading away. 
The seedlings once sown out of my arrogance and pride, 
Grew up into trees only to shove me away, 
Cause I don’t bear the starlight today. 
  
My pretty face perished in no time, 
I realized what I had to realize overdue, 
I wanted to turn the world towards me, 
Show them I am the one ,who once the world adored 
Abandoned abruptly by the Starlight to which I lost myself to. 
It wasnt just me 
Cozening those fellow entertainers like me out there, to dance to its moves 
It would set them aside as those, 
Once considered valuable and precious, 
As nothing but good old memories. 
  
Filled with remorse I stood at the turning point of my life aimless, 
Just to come across few children,unflinchingly struggling to touch their dreams. 
The flash of this pinched the human in me, 
Wanting to make their unseen dreams real, 
Donated my whole wealth that gave me no glory. 
After all, I finally realized this 
Its not the pretty and elegant faces, 
But those pretty smiles 
That one sets on another’s face counts. 
With all those smiles around me 
I pray to Lord Almighty, 
To let me touch the foot of salvation peacefully. 
                                                                     -Akshara