Never live in the shadows; leave them.
Never live in the moments that belong to the past,
be present in the present even if its aghast.
'Membering the memories fond would surely trigger dopamine
but realize that the 'Real' world is
nothing but cruel and mean.
The colorful and aromatic past,
a time when you sported a smile
the same smile that has now been sent into an exile,
has left way for
the world that doles out worries,
the worries when chained,
longer than the longest Nile.
To live the life to its fullest,
we are graced by the nights
but the night's blankness is filled up
with wishes to the past and future bending rites
Ignoring
the dolorous reality,
a reality so dark so grim,
with rays o' light
emerging through tiny pores in mites.
Given
your courage has been buried deep,
the paths to a laugh hide beneath the smog
where people leap to ambitions over morality
but in a scruple,
you stand there agog.
Are we the riff-raffs now?
in this world where cruelty is rife,
Greed,
Wealth,
Power
and pleasure
are not goals
but dead ends in this maze
called life.
~Ajay
February 2017
