Amma

Emerged into the world A life Delivered through pain Suffering the excruciating Screaming To offset the pain Months of rearing Feeding off herself Her every bit of grain Fretting and worrying Unnoticed at time Many times, in vain Letting go her needs For everyone else Without a strain Ever willing to give To sacrifice SheContinue reading “Amma”

In a Happy Place

There was a knota hurting oneDeepwithin the beating heart The constricting cageHolding the fearPiercingLike a painful dart The dread and the gloomPermeated the coreStretchingAnd tearing it apart At the bottom of abyssWhere light endedmotionlessIn the abysmal dark There I layAway from graceIn despairHope away from my grasp In that lonely coldI felt the gushof aContinue reading “In a Happy Place”

Oh my Happiness, you can’t make me sad

You have goneEmptiness engulfs meGrief is heavyCrushing me beneathBut then I wonder Memories of you Are the best I ever hadOh my Happiness You can’t make me Sad The impermanence of lifeThe fragility of futureThe human delusion of successThe warm bonding of relationsYou made us pause and ponder Happiness is shroudedin a false sense ofContinue reading “Oh my Happiness, you can’t make me sad”