DEEPTI GUPTA

DEEPTI GUPTA

Past Is Never Dead

People often say

Past is a bygone thing

Past is dead, so bury it

Forget it…………...!!

While I feel, it is not so

The ‘moment’ is temporary,

But the memory is forever!

I’ve met so many people

I’ve been to so many places

And behold so many things

All endearing, beautiful & unforgettable

I got attached to them…...!

Their friendly warmth, sincerity & affection

Their tranquillity and beauty

Their elegance, loveliness & serenity

I was enamoured of them all…!

Though the people, places & things

are no more with me today

But I treasure the moments

I shared with them, I lived with them

Those moments beautiful, immortal

moments…………!!

With the wheel of time

I left them all behind

But, those eternal moments

associated with them

are still as alive as I am!!

The moments, how can they die

When, I, who has lived them

Am alive……!!

I fondly cherish their memory

even today……...!

whenever, I am deeply absorbed

in those past memories…….

I feel as if, I am living those

bygone days again………...!!

Even today, they are throbbing

And splendid, as they used to be!!

My sensitivity has imprinted,

on my heart ……

an indelible picture of the PAST…!!

So how can I say

The dead is my past……….!!!

Summer Of Childhood

           How I wish to relive

          my childhood days

           Could the rushing time

          rewind for once

           and take me to those

          olden ‘n golden days.

           Days, those days, full of

          cheers and chirps

           full of enthusiasm and life.

           Specially, long, quiet 

          summer noon’s.

           My brother, naughty ‘n restless

           insisting granny to tell

          a long fairy tales

           At times, playing

          Carrum and Bagatelle

           striking small glass balls

          into numbered holes

           with a cue, how I miss

          those cute, nonsense

          cheatings in those games,

          fighting and cursing 

          each other on childish things!

          Being competitive in winning 

          the favour of parents

          and grand parents

          Getting swelled modestly

          on a little praise

          and appreciation and 

          posing to be the 

            

          role model of the most

         obedient and humble child.

          Lying under the whirring fan

         listening and telling unending

         tales, jokes reciting jingles 

         and then waiting for

             the chilled fruits, dessert

         and ice creams to beat the heat 

         of scorching noon’s

         Mute, quiet and lazy

         summer days

         always came along with lots

         of warmth & wisdom which 

         I enjoyed and received 

         In the caring precious and

          loving company of

            my dear ones!

Inner Journey

Have you ever been on a journey with yourself?

If not, do it, and travel all the places inside you

Don’t leave any place, any space, unseen and untouched!!

You would love to stay at lovely places, but would try to

Escape from ugly places……!

If lovely spots inside you, make you swell,

the ugly spots would make you shrink!

But ugly spots, though ugly, have their own utility;

They don’t let you lose your balance & equilibrium,

Never forget, the same way, if good things have a positive side,

they have their negative side also………!!

They create an imbalance in you

they make you, arrogant and egoist….

They blow your senses………!!

While the ugly places, ugly points, your weaknesses

in you, keep you close to the ground,

Such an inner journey is essential for you

to revive your thoughtfulness, your wisdom,

your senses, your goodness…...!!

If the modest & humble human being,

Ever sleeps in you, do this journey………!!

It is no less than a pilgrimage

It takes away all the garbage of ego, conceit

cruelty, coldness and harshness…...!

It purifies you; it filters you

Makes you feel healthy!

Cleans your thinking, clears your vision…!

Softens your sharp edges.

Awakens your humbleness

And keeps the human being alive in you…!!

DEEPTI GUPTA