Fossilized Obsession
Living happy and content
is to celebrate the lilt of life
a treasure gifted by God.
We join the celebration happily
with gifts wrapped nicely
in flashy wrappers designed to capture
the eyes and to enrobe crafted pieces
of our unclad hearts we like to gift.
Gifts mutely laced with unsaid words
of secret sentiments unexpressed
presented to remind on an occasion
that someone out there still loves
and someone out there still cares
who still remember the remote moments
you lived for them at the fringe of their time
through the winters and the springs.
Gifts wrapped with the unfelt warmth
of the distant hearts receding farther
convey in a subtle way intended
that someone out there still loves
and someone out there still cares
who still send silent messages
telling you to celebrate the special life
God gifted you to transiently treasure
and welcome the times that promise
everything pleasant and desirable
to the fullest your life deserves.
An old man lingering out there
doesn’t think however
he has seen in his ancient abode
good times enter anytime
and the gifts he rarely gets
would accompany one joyous instant ever.
So in the antique garbage pile
he throws away the gifts
he ungratefully thinks useless in twilight hour
but keeps the wrinkled gift wrappers
folded neatly with care
in the unlocked ancient closet
he believes is his heart.
He doesn’t know when
the closet of his passion unpossessed
encases the essence of his obsession.
In the secured folds over folds
of the faded gift wrappers
he thinks he stores the last touch
of those who had once loved,
preserves the lasting image
of those who had once cared,
for him to possess intimately
and enliven his residual time.
When the gifts would stop coming
at the end of the spring time
like the birds vanishing somewhere
as they always do in the winter
the old man left obsessed alone in the cold
would open the dusty closet
of his passionate heart
unfold the wrappers with care
peeling the layers of memory
feel the warm touch of those
who had once loved,
see the faded images of those
who had once cared.
The lingering glow of the wrappers
would brighten up the dark closet
for the rest of the time he has.
The man lives his insular life
protecting the unlocked closet
where his obsession got fossilized
spends his time looking inside in the dark
for all the time he has
searching for the golden gift of God
and its beautiful glowing wrapper.
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2017
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