Poem: Coming and Going (Storm in a Teacup)
This is the one Priya missed reading ( inspired by the famous TV series ‘Friends’. I am dedicating this post to one of the best onscreen characters — Chandler Bing played by Matthew Perry, who recently passed away. I also dedicate this to the children of conflict.
Poem: Coming and Going
Priya’s poem alludes to the transient nature of people in our lives, including mortality and the fickleness of relationships.
Storms have a way of
coming and going
Some clear paths
for miles wide,
washing away sins
in receding tides,
and making a way
for newer beginnings
Other storms
are just passing through,
soft and subtle,
changing the views
from our windows
We have all flown through
many of those
People are like that sometimes;
coming and going,
constantly bowling
curveballs that change
the fabric of our lives
Other storms, like people;
coming and going,
are here just long enough
to remind us
we are all leaves
that sway in the wind
until we fall~ ©️ Priya Patel, Nov 14 🕉
Priya’s words below swayed me. But I picked another context for this problem. People fighting over land, forgetting that they are killing their children and irreversibly damaging the next generation. Children of conflict suffer through their lives if they survive the bullets and bombs.
‘We are all leaves
That sway in the wind
Until we fall’
Poem: STORM IN A TEACUP
If God had an eraser in his hand
Or a sweeping broom
Forest fires and typhoons
Deluges and drought
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Or a meteor hit somewhere
The Almighty’s reset button
What about our fickle lives
Just as Priya says –
‘We are all leaves
That sway in the wind
Until we fall’Yet, we fume and fret
with Anger and vengeance
Fight for a little piece of land
The thought of little minds
Storms in a teacup
(There is unlimited
real estate out there)For we are supposed to be
The conscientious speck
In a beautiful blue planet
Circling an average star
Lost in a wafer-thin galaxy
One of the three-plus trillions
Of the only part of the Universe
That our limited eyes can see.~Ashok Subramanian © 2023
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
― Paulo Coelho
Transcience is the truth of this Universe. I hope we learn it for ourselves and our children.
~Ashok Subramanian © 2023
