Life is too long to be always happy. There are moments when we fall and then there are times when we rise. But all said and done, we are the same person inside. If I have learnt something, it is this- beauty is just a myth. We all carry the torch of our splendid beauty inside our heart and mind. We know our scars, regrets, wounds, worries and trepidations. Time does not heal anything. We heal ourselves. We grow like a rose on an abandoned briar with character, integrity and determination of our own mind. This is how we live. This is how we survive.
Sometimes there is absolute meaninglessness in finding meaning to things beyond your control. The idea is to move on with the stoic grace of your own positivity because the moment you start to find meaning there is no possibility of snapping out of 'why', 'how' or 'when'.
I saw this woman, a floral print on her cotton dupatta
walking in and out of the maze of the herb garden for a fleeting moment I thought she was my mother with her passion for plants, pets and petrichor its going to rain today, she would say with her self taught meteorological expertise she had never been wrong, she would say with ease the woman came to me and asked with unease Are you okay? Do you need something? I wish I could tell her I see my mother in everything. -jaspreet mann So the world unfolds slowly like Michelangelo's dream inside your heart. One thing inside your head and the other outside. Your heart is a dappled snowstorm. Your mind is an archipelago of twists and turns. One boat capsizes, another takes you to the shore. You revisit tropical storms and arrive inside the parenthesis of eclipses. Heaven and Hell are just words. You resurrect your poetry. You make meaning of the unspoken and the unsaid. You live like rivers collapsing inside the arms of the sea, tired of meandering. There is always a thin line between flailing and flying. But you discover your wings. The future is written in the glory of the present tense. So I dedicate these lines to me, to the woman who knows that yielding is not harvest.
~jm *Back in time when I was struggling with weightier issues.... The thing about social media is that it is anything but social.
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