Friday 19 June 2015

FADING TO NAUGHT

FADING TO NAUGHT

Happy feelings
Are like grains of sand
Slipping away
Through every hour hand…

No matter how tight
One may grasp
Or how emotionally
Molded
They be
Them feelings once a little dry
Break and fall away
Easily…

Happy feelings
Like paper boats
They are
On a fast moving stream
But slowly getting soaked
And drowning!

A happy feel
Like a house of cards,
It is.
Like a tailor’s unskilled stitch
Easily coming apart
At the seam…
As though a hot air balloon
A  happy feeling will soar,
But when caught in a wayward wind
Lose it will
Its directed vigor…

Happy feelings are
Like sketches
From the paint brush
Of an artist
Who at the end
Abandons color schemes!

Yes, happy feelings are
All these things
But they are more…

They are the waves
At low tide
On a seashore…
A fleeting memory
Of how one often
Dreams one’s life is to be…

Happy feelings
Are frowns that
Once were upside
Down…

Happy feelings
They are drifters
And when they go
One is left with none…

Happy feelings
Like autumn leaves
They are beautiful but
Quietly and quickly
Fading to naught…!

                                                                    FREDERIKA MENEZES

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