Sunday, January 13, 2013

THE PAST



The past, the then future, lurks in the present
     And the present lives with the past
It’s a bridge between the past and the future
     Memory, feelings, attachment and experiences
To revive and rejuvenate ever for smiles
     To ache and agonize ever for tears
It haunts life-long like the shade-companion
     Wordsworth in the melancholy mood
Dances the sprightly dance of daffodils
     And enjoys the song of the Solitary Reaper
Keats’s heart aches with the depth of feeling
     On recalling the song of the Nightingale
The road I trod memorizing as a student
     Brings back the whole of Shakespeare’s poem
The memory of his father’s message keeps on
     His son, the days of obedience in the past
The recall of the past revives itself in the present
     The past, stored in the bank of memory
Serves as a beacon light in the path of life
     It persists in the endless motion of Time.                            

‘Cherished Cherries’       
201   6 Jan,’05    142
(Publishd in Triveni, Vol. 79, No.3, Jul- Sep, 2010)

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