Surface-Tension
©August 12th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
©August 12th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Dreaming of depths unseen,
We float on wave after wave,
Tossed along by storm after storm.
We imagine the haunting sounds
Echoes of another world,
Reverberating, linking us,
Strand by strand to our past,
Our future, full of promises,
Full of consolation (Yes, we’ll
See each other again, someplace
Some time, if not now, in
Another form, another shape).
We long to know that there’s more –
More to make us feel
Other than merely mortal.
We call this The Veil,
The Dream, Maya.
Convinced
There’s more to Life,
We search for the elusive,
The Unattainable, envisioning
Untraversed spaces,
Unplumbed deeps that await.
But what if it were all surface?
What, then?
We shall have to build
A layer beneath,
And beneath that,
And more below those.
And layers above,
And more above those.
Then, with intake of breath
And clarity of mind,
We shall move between them,
In order to surface,
And draw a breath,
And heave ourselves ashore.
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We float on wave after wave,
Tossed along by storm after storm.
We imagine the haunting sounds
Echoes of another world,
Reverberating, linking us,
Strand by strand to our past,
Our future, full of promises,
Full of consolation (Yes, we’ll
See each other again, someplace
Some time, if not now, in
Another form, another shape).
We long to know that there’s more –
More to make us feel
Other than merely mortal.
We call this The Veil,
The Dream, Maya.
Convinced
There’s more to Life,
We search for the elusive,
The Unattainable, envisioning
Untraversed spaces,
Unplumbed deeps that await.
But what if it were all surface?
What, then?
We shall have to build
A layer beneath,
And beneath that,
And more below those.
And layers above,
And more above those.
Then, with intake of breath
And clarity of mind,
We shall move between them,
In order to surface,
And draw a breath,
And heave ourselves ashore.
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