Thursday, March 20, 2008

My overworked head has too many words in it. And playing with words has kept me occupied through many a boring times. Funnily the only time I ever get bored is if I have to talk.
Any way so I came up with some thing...I feel like it's still incomplete, but I started it 2 weeks ago and 4 lines in, I had nothing more to say. Today I stumbled over those lines in my forgotten notes somewhere and added a few more lines...and I don't think I'm done. Yet I'm done with it for now.
That's why I'm calling it infinity, because I'm not sure which verse it should start with and where it should end..and if it should end at all

Here goes:
Infinity

Am I trapped in the whims of the stars?
Between thin lines on palms am I?
A child of the earth born to live
Bound by dates and numbers,
Mere mortal am I?
Timeless life has no time for me then?
What meaning has it for my troubles or joys?

In deep waters,
What storm will brew
If this droplet seeks
Becomes a cloud?
The sea will come
and go in waves.
And with its ebbs and flows,
We add some and we take some
Or we think we do
And still it remains as is, as was
And as ever will be.

If I was born
Out of eternity
Then was I ever really born?

And when was it that I lived?
Before or after infinity?
And when I was
An animal perhaps...where then were
The lines on my palms?

And when the stars
Were not born yet
Whose whims made my destiny?
What makes me...me

If I am or if I ever was?
---Megha (03/20/08)

3 comments:

Sunil said...

Hi there,
A true philosophical poetry i must say. And i'm left with: What makes me...me
If I am or if I ever was?

Sunil said...

Happy Holi!

SUMI said...

Beautiful, beautiful....