Friday, June 5, 2020

Feel The Road

Let’s remember
Throughout our lives
We’re on our way
Toward death.
Each day we travel
Only a little
And think
We were always at rest
Like someone sleeping throughout
The journey on a train.
Let’s change this
Let’s take the travel
To somewhere else
Let’s settle someplace else.
From the streets spread on earth
Let’s carve paths as such
Where by merely walking
We make mornings
From nights,
Destinations
From paths.
Let’s not waste our wanderlust
Let’s not only breathe
And run out of it
Let this life
Feel the journey
Let the traveller
Feel the road
Let’s travel to life before
We meet death.
(The poet dedicates this poem to his father.)
Feel The Road was first published by Spark Magazine

Nothing Survives

Nothing Survives

NOTHING SURVIVES

Words leap over words
Trounce each other
Silence survives.
Time runs over time
Flatten each other
Memory survives.
Pages pile over pages
Bury each other
Reader survives.
Love wrestles with love
Trample each other
Nothing survives.
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Photo by John-Mark Smith on Unsplash

Nothing Survives was first published by The Bangalore Review
http://bangalorereview.com/2019/05/nothing-survives/