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Mind often makes a circuitous pilgrimage
Sliding down and going up the banisters of time
As I hear the grating sound of worn stairs behind
Memories come darting in and out of shadows

From childhood’s flamboyant days
Mind scuttles between the past and the present
Skipping over the bliss of buoyant youth
To life’s present weary days and to the future
 
Life’s train has sadly changed its track
Years, like torn pages have flown away
But the frivolous inner child pines
Obstinately for all that once held dear
 
I remember having run over plains n’ paddy fields
Trying to cut across their widening margins
Brushing past brambles and thickets 
To chase butterflies that came to molest the lovely blooms

How I went on a search to meet the winged seraphs 
That I heard, sang in chorus in Heaven’s gilded halls
Looked for God, amid scurrying clouds,
To slay the ghosts, I believed, hidden in my closet

I remember my youth of squandered passions
When I scrawled love’s graffiti on my mind’s wall 
And carried my beloved’s picture in my mind
So flawless that no artist could ever conspire to alter.

Now I constantly wage a losing battle
Against forces that threaten to take away my calm
All I see is pain, death and human suffering
And life sadly getting lost in meaningless strife

Age has burdened me with a deadly weight
Fastening chains on my once supple feet
All I pray is – Don’t let me be a burden to anyone
And give me a mindset to accept all that comes my way

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April.13. 2023

Open Poetry. 6. Poetry Contest
Sponsor. Charlotte Puddifoot

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