Eulogy To A Memory

Like that of ferocious tiger chasing its prey

The inner me was chasing the future’s shimmery rays.

Striving to escape the present, I kept on up beating for the days on the door.

Lamenting on the days in hand, I went wrong in smelling their fragrance.

The warmth of mother’s lap, the cosiness of abode

The flimsiness of younger ones, the affinity of the hometown.

All had the vociferous place in my heart,

But I was hunting for the charismatic future.

The new days knocked the door, ousting the days in hand.

The new days showered the plethora of episodes,

Conclusively, the future I was lingering for was welcomed by that hour.

Thus, leaving the days behind into ashes,

And the heart began sweeping those infinite ashes.

Sighed the battered heart how it treated those days belittled.

The inexorable well-spring of memories accompanied me,

And held me tenaciously thus not letting to swipe away the ashes they left.

With the vigorous steps, I try to quell the coveted inner self,

That was screaming for the glimmer of the days that I left behind.

The callousness of the present days sketched how pretentious those days were.

Irked, swamped, forlorn, dejected me, hiking to escape reminiscent picture.

But the frustrations didn’t endorse to shrug-off those.

Then the heart flagged the memories to stay, but stay for the better cause.

It delved to entrust the trappings of memories over there.

This effigy of past smiling broadly at my present,

And its reflection accompanying, emboldening the regret of leaving it.

And now the pall of cloud overshadowed to embrace the embarking memories merrily

By taking it as a dockyard, to stand once again

Heart with open arms welcomed those memories after stirring,

Heart uttered “to inhale the flocking peace from them I will treasure them”.

Thus, they reincarnated from me to rekindle the present,

That present which got weaved out of moments,

Those moments now got turned into the gemmed memories.