Goodbye
I just know I would see that smile again
I just know I would hear that childish laughter again
Why, life on Earth is not the end of the road
Rather, it is a mere transiting station
One with an aim already foretold
Indeed, here one is meant to acquire more spiritual knowledge
So as to be prepared to take up duties in the world of the privileged
There, in the world known as the one other
There, in the world said to be the one purer
Here, one is already fated to leave
Of such, we should not grieve
Rather, we should only care to live our lives
And cater to our duties and to our moralities
Such is what I had read once,
In those books made of wise soothing words
Those books from which I learnt so much
Those books into which I do only yearn to drown myself in
So, when I got news that my peer has left without saying goodbye
Even if swallowed my gulp, checked my fast beating heart
And held back my tears
I also looked at the skies and smiled
For I just know that I shall see that smile again
For now, life shall be a pain
Yes, life shall even turn out to be a disdain
But no goodbye is to be seen to be a final one
Somehow, I shall hear that laughter again
I shall get to bear with that taunt again
I shall have, by then, already unraveled the puzzles of life
And I shall understand and accept the timing of that goodbye
For in that world other,
I would see life from a different view
Pitying my once blinded self
Pitying the many who remained still blinded, with no awakening
Life, a mere wondrous piece of soulful torture
Is to be lived as it is
With arms opened wide, ready to welcome anything that it gives to us
From new friendships, to painful goodbyes!
Copyright © Anoucheka Gangabissoon | Year Posted 2016
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