‘Cheated’

My Present state of mind reads,

That I have been cheated far and wide!

People have used me to better their condition.

They have misused, and played, with my devotion.

I feel so doomed, thinking of how I fell in this trap,

The bait of which was laced with friendship, love and humility!

As I give a deep thought to this,

In my mind, some things start to take shape,

The people, and feeling blamed earlier, now don’t seem to be at mistake!

Love came along, with a bag full of Joy and Pain,

So how can the joy be mine and the pain be other’s mistake.

Love came by own choice and will leave the same way,

So how can I blame it, this way?

Friendship is a relation of trust, a feeling two individuals share,

Friendship hence is not bigger than friends,

No rights have I then to try, to change my friends!

I still feel cheated and it hurts a lot.

But, if friends and love aren’t the culprits, who is?

Thinking deeper and longer, I finally come to this realization

That I have been a victim of nothing, but my own expectation!!