Friday 25 November 2011

Away from you


Here's a small poem I wrote in a haste on my friends website:http://the-vault.co.cc
where, she keeps a competition called 'Giveaways' .A line is given, to complete and if it's the best, you get a book in return! woo hoo!
the line was During Autumn, I......
I am not much of a writer,but here's is what I could think of!

During Autumn I, await the winter
to come and bury the things of yesterday.
Yesterday, that was shining bright,
that was dancing,
to the songs we sang all night.

During autumn I, await the wind,
to take away the memories.
Memories that still bind
me and you.

During autumn, I am still,
dry and withered away,
broken but not yet
away from you.

I have waited for long,
for time to come and wipe me off.
away from you.
I have waited,
for someone to come and
sing me the unsung song
of love and hope.

During autumn, I am still waiting
in hope, for that someone
to be you.

During Autumn I, wish that it
had never come.
For it took me away,
away from you.

Thursday 24 November 2011

Doing Good and Getting...?

I was once scrolling through my facebook's homepage where I saw one of my friend's status message, it said, "Doing good leads you nowhere..!"; I bet she was upset about not getting what she expected. This led me to thinking, is doing good relative to getting good? If all the good we do is because we expect we'll be reciprocated with goodness in return?
The objects of the world, the people around us or say all the external objects a person interacts with,is not in his or her control. Their reactions cannot be in any one's control, anticipating and having expectations from the same is folly of one's own mind. Human mind is so dynamic that one can never really judge in which direction it would jump. Now, with something as unstable as this, how can I expect robotic and monotonic responses?! Hence, my good doings don't give me any guarantee of good receivings!
If someone believes in good-ness and always does good just because that person feels he or she be treated well in return; then I wonder if such good-ness is even good?!THINK!
According to me, if one feels like always doing good then one must continue doing good, even if you are left with empty hands; such actions are genuine and uncontaminated by the prejudice of expectations. The things that actually leave you hurt are expectations and attachments. Expectations not fulfilled leaves one discontended; expectations unmatched from someone you're attached to leaves you feeling hurt. So, friends let's not fall into the trap of expectations( negative) and attachments. let's keep ourselves free from such self created bondages, feel the life inside us and not put our heads and hearts into so much trouble.
Let's not just settle with good, let's strive to achieve greatness.
Replacing goodness with greatness will make our actions self-less and nobler.

What do you say? :)