Wednesday, 24 February 2021

♓️ Time & Fate: A Short Poem

A small poem on life's philosophy by Biswajit Basu

TIME & FATE

I have swaggered down the narrow path of life

Peeping hither and thither under rocks and stones

Hoping to find a tunnel to happiness

Of landscapes where the forests are lush and gold


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Where bubbling streams go their merry way

In unthinking delight unknowing whether they will skyward as rain go

Or perhaps as an insignificant drop in the vast salty sea below


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And lofty cedars and junipers the sky do seek

And the resplendent rhodendron blooms pink and purple on the carpet below our feet

Rendering the landscape a joy to behold


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But I know, under each stone could be a scorpion instead

Tail curled to strike and its venom deep inside to bed

Tumultuous writhings, cries and strain

Bringing the white agony of distress and pain 


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But the stones and rocks have to be turned

To unfold what the enigma of Time has fated for you

Life is thus an unending quest.

Of things simply fated to happen to you.

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