The Love grows within
11 June 2016
People hold
The woes at arms’ length
They confess
Wrongdoings
The priest a pail of water
Washing away sin
Through the din
Of voices spilling
The chilling
Careless minds
Owning up a lost concept
Remorse ne’er teeth grinds
The waters
Wash away matter
The unclaimed
Cast treasures
Of inner content measures
Declining substance
Stretched so thin
The souls a shadow
Of lost hope
Blind justice
The mouth but tool to practise
False words of regret
The victims
The ghosts of the self
The gaze bleak
As they speak
Of accumulated hurt
Until the night falls
Day’s respite
Within the sorrows
Invented
Outer world
Mirrors of inner torment
As dark faces light
Mind creates
From pool of battles
The ripple
Unending
The battlefield heart-rending
We fight but ourselves
Learn balance
The heart speaks clearly
Yet the mind
Clings dearly
Known fields appeasing kingdoms
Though they spell bloodshed
It trickles
Drop after drop flows
Till the end
When hearts mend
The cup a humble chalice
The flow endless stream
The seeker
Walks in white penance
Within dream
Through unseen
The journey a star filled trek
Through the wilderness
Fading steps
In realms of the void
Of reasons
Self devoid
Only knowing acceptance
The why matters not
When hearts rule
The kingdoms flourish
Each bastion
A limb cast
Inner nurturing outer
The Love grows within
Reading of the poem:
This beautiful gif is courtesy Samuel Viani on samuelviani.com
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The battles within ourselves, a lifelong quest for some. I loved this poem Geetha, in fact, it has inspired a short story, still in the mind just now. Thank you for your wonderful words and way of seeing things.
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Welcome Adele. I look forward to reading your story. Please ping me if I don’t come by as I am missing all my notifications and wordpress has unfollowed some of my followed blogs. I started trying to fix it but then got too busy with other things. Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
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my pleasure Geetha. The story is done, needs editing but will let you know as I will be mentioning your poem as an inspiration.
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Great! Looking forward to reading it 🙂
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Dreamy reading
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Thank you Derrick 🙂
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