Author: Daksh Sharma, Class XI F
A typical day in my life is awash with monotony and certainty,
Predictability disconnects from a task any emotion,
Not a day goes by without me feeling empty-
Drifting in this lifeless ocean.
Everyday from this ceaseless foreknowledge I demanded liberation,
Craving cessation of this forced apathy,
But this seemingly perpetual farce
never failed to strengthen my frustration.
Oh! How I wish the universe had some empathy.
Yes, that is how it was!
But then, the board exam results were released!
Finally it had arrived! My long needed rapture!
Beyond any description I was pleased,
For it was a feeling no words could capture!
Soaring through the clouds was my mind,
Envisioning the termination of that wretched recurrence,
But the light of pleasure made it so blind,
It expected nothing but blissful permanence.
Yet deep within, the joy was not but a fleeting
Mere and momentary high,
Minute-by-minute that bliss was depleting,
And soon, the vessel of emotion was again dry.
An absurd notion! I dismissed with a frown,
Hiding behind the shield of ‘unfulfilled expectations’,
But the truth spared not even that shield from breakdown,
And revealed the supreme principle of god’s creation.
Incredibly bitter is the wine of victory,
When one feels/understands its transience,
Never did I know that existence is this contradictory,
When I was in my blissfully ignorant ambience.
Yes, that is how it is!
The ego was soon reduced to dust,
Destroyed were the daydreams and fantasies,
Silenced was my fragile mortal lust
When the truth disproved the glorious fallacies.
Predictable and monotonous remain my days,
Unchanged is my apathetic state,
But no longer do I burn under expectation’s blaze,
And no longer do I treat foreknowledge with hate.
For now I see the bigger picture,
With a mind unswayed by the external,
The truth preached by many scriptures,
Nothing Is Eternal.
Yes, that is how it would be.
