Prompt:-Spring by Shishir Lakhani
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Prompt:– Spring
It was a warm spring night, when I was born
A Hospital baby …. no less
Most of my cousins and even my brother
Were born in rather more austere surroundings … at home
Let me indulge
I imagine the gardens were plump with flowers
Flowers in sumptuous colors
In the falling darkness witnessed in its wisdom,
by a stars peaking from the silver cloudless sky
A man is entitled to a little daydreaming
However veil of romance does fall away
As the seasons change ….so did I
Eyes wide open…
Watching the clock change its red numbers, in the depth of dark despair
Where did all the time go?
Unseasonal snow fell on my dreams…
As loved ones left, many, without even a proper goodbye
The stealthy assault of time … as you know, and I know
Time buries us all
Our own mortality so ungraspable
Today a day of spring now stands still…. as I reminisce
Shadows close in
What is life but an escape from death?
I intimately grieve… Grief is indeed the price I pay for love
Love I have shared …and gratefully received
A raging inferno within schemed by fear
….On one hand, that survival instinct
On the other,
That love – that warm compassion for
those dear ones, who have made my life so worthwhile
…and filled it with joy
Spring goes to remind me
…….of the seasons
That ever turning wheel of life