“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest
where no-one sees you, but
sometimes I do, and
that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

what does it take ...

to be where you want to be?
to do what you want to do?
to love who you want to love?
to live how you want to live?

it takes a decision
with a pinch of denial
and a hint of a daydream

it takes the love of friends
and the tears of loved ones

it takes desire wrapped
in love and sealed with
a drop of
molten passion
- for what you believe in
- for when and where
--you want to be

it takes the journey of
a lifetime shedding excess
baggage on the way -
- looming black boxes
of pride and anger
and arrogance lie
by the wayside
like rusty old cars

it takes the fall of
frustration and the
rise of confidence

it takes the sweetening
of bitterness with a
sprinkle of hope

it takes
the absolute certainty that ...
this is the work you really want
and the love you really crave
and the place you really like
and the life you really choose

it takes the humility to
remember your mistakes

and the gratitude to
acknowledge your friends

and the love to
try your best

and the strength (oft borrowed!) to
see things through

and the (pigheaded) stubbornness
to keep your head low
and your eyes straight
and just swing away
with all your might-
-till you feel your arm ripping out
to keep swinging
and not stop to hear that
resounding CRACK
as you finally connect and
the ball goes sailing
to remind yourself
(yet again!) -
-to swing away
with all your heart
and enjoy the pain
in your torn shoulder

... for the game
has just begun ...

finally, alone in the dark,
as you lie down
and lick your wounds
and nurse your arm

you realise
(every day
every night)

that it takes
more than anything else

the good fortune

to be

a friend
to the best friends
a man could have

and a son
to the best parents in
the whole wide world

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

manasillayillaa.....Rejath Ajayan