A muse of now or
A memory of tomorrow
Both seem amusing
Greeted with sparkling eyes
Yet one sparkles with joy
And other a nostalgic sorrow.
Is it because it ended?
Or does time even matter?
Only time can answer
For itself, and for others.
Are joy and sorrow
The binaries of the emo world?
Or are all humans compulsive,
To classify their deepest memories?
Is it because they might go away?
When the bouncy ball no longer bounces
Do you not remember your tiny head
Following the ball with a heart?
A heart that did not know
Of sorrow or joy
Of pain of remembrance
Or the joy of forgetting
Is that heart a memory now?
A happy one I hope,
And if it is
You're lucky.
The line, 'do you not remember your tiny head following the ball with a heart ?' hit deep that it made me wonder those memories that my mind wanted to stop remembering but my heart wouldn't let me.
ReplyDeleteIt's unclassified indeed but I feel the heart can become a happy memory after a point of time if we allow it to. But no matter if it has become happy or not, those memories that made your heart go crazy like that, they deserve to be called special I guess.
This one was deep. Keep writing!
The poet has done a wonderful job of capturing essence of memory and childhood, evoking sense of nostalgia and remembrance of long forgotten emotions. Congratulations to the poet!
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