MY LIFE
By Biswajit Basu
‘Dedicated to my sister, Moon’
1
I look past the drizzle on my window at the mellowed sun
Mellowed by the decades of passing clouds of life,
And I sit today and look back at years of ups and downs,
Mostly up and rarely down, I must honestly admit.
2
But it has been a respledent, flowery and full life.
With every path therein forecharted into an indistinct passage
With slight tinges of design sometimes thrown in.
More in hope than any certitude of events to follow
Visible mostly in retrospect, rather during its passing
The journey has been the life of a venerated old ship
That has toiled its life in the service of mankind
But was never spared the buffeting of vicious storms
when they came a-roaring by.
Only to sail victorious into calmer seas that always followed a rough passage
As I look back at the years that have passed,
A feeling of peace settles deep in my heart
And I know I have done in the brief flash that was my life
Playing to mankind a small but significant part.
But everything in this Universe that is born
Is destined to be consigned to flames in the end
Whether it be billions of years in the timeline of the Universe
So it is to roughly seven decades allocated to a man
It all ends in fiery glory to a grand finale.
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