I wrote this poem a long time back during my first semester in college in a state of mind when I was lonely, depressed and frustrated with everything in life. I showed this poem to several people at that time and everyone liked it mostly because of its poetic appeal. But yesterday after writing my post on ‘Moksha’, I remembered this poem I had once written and now looked at it from a whole new different angle. I had these concepts of life in my subconscious mind long back but yesterday, I could construct it and represent them in a way by which most people could understand. So, to complete my idea of Life and bring forth an element of elegance, I am putting up this lost poem in my blog today.

Please read my previous post on Moksha before reading this poem to understand the real meaning of the words I had said.

If life was like a viking ship and the universe the sea,

And I could sail away the horizon until I reach the sands of time;

I would then be dreaming away to loiter in a limitless paradise,

And lose myself in an unconscious world

Without any knowledge of life and death.

But if the world with all its bitter berries and better butters,

Suddenly stares at me in my weakest moment..

When I am treading under the wings of my utopia,

When I am alone and pondering in my mind

Of rash impudency and childish callowness;

My dandy looks are immature then, to my bevelled thoughts.

Suddenly, something strikes me like thunder from the sky

And I look up to the heavens for guidance.

As the bile fills my stomach and I,

in fear of the unknown, only pray that I may evade the storm.

But the pungent truth bitters my rosy tongue

As the universe tears apart my chastity;

And I am left in solitude with the blank ceiling mocking at me;

And I staring hard into his gaping holes

Makes me realize one of so many mistakes,

I made in my crazy appetite;

That I am not the only one who makes these unearthly lashes

Upon the world so wide:

That to every love, there is hate;

That where there is death, there is life;

And good and evil are manifestations of a simple truth;

The will to survive.