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Moment of Change | Poem by Neha's Notebook

 


Life flits past us

In a moment of change

Often too quick

That we can’t hold its entire range

 

Of sadness, grief, wrath, rage

Shapeshifting holograms appear disappear

There is sometimes ecstasy and bliss

Not to forget the leery voice of fear

 

A melancholous sorrow wails before us

While a resplendent release awaits with open arms

The darkness still tugs upon our shoulders

Dangling like clinking bracelet charms

 

All the while the old telephones go haywire with dissonance

The sunlit lakes draw us in intoxicating gravity of silence

Flamebulbs of tranquilizing energies swirl within

Mollifying the shadows into charcoal cleanse

 

A moment of change arrives at our doorstep

Carrying buggies of words dressed in emoticons

We may resist, at first, but eventually

We learn to let go and move on

 

The journey doesn’t come to an end

Though stories do culminate

Teardrops slather the loose-leaf pages

As we flip through, fearful of their fate

 

The moment of change never dies

It comes again and again in smithers and smithers

Like a half-asleep wild beast

Whose restless legs wriggle and slither

Moments of change rub the sandpapers of our hearts

It hurts, but they galvanize our soul

Phoenixes after all are stories, they aren’t born until stories are thrown

In fiery infernos that stick out their lolling tongues and burn them away all

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