Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Blogging from A-Z Challenge: L for Living Life!



Outlandish it is how people think of it—
living, I mean;
on some sunlit afternoon
as we pursue the fantasies of life
with no time to reflect on loneliness or fecundity,
it strikes us as beautiful.

Like the delicate green on a stone-strewn pool
our faces sweetly touched by the air and the cool water
rise and shine as they float in that inviting
stream of ecstasy and ruin,
and we feel relieved to be alive and living.

But there are times too
when the frail arms of life,
ever so weary of the enervating stretch
 and having had enough of catching the sun
in empty bowls,
howl…enough is enough.

And yet at end of the storm,
the fly caught in coffee dregs is finally relieved;
 its agglutinated wings been dried by the air exhaled from some invisible mouth,
it is able to fly once more
in the full-throttled light of the world
contented: to be living a life for itself. 

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