Something you hate (Poem)

Moin Uddin
Kathmandu

Something you hate, wish not to come soon
Something you want, wish to happen soon
Something you desire, wish to get soon
Something you fear, wish not to come true soon

And in all those hatred you get love
And in all those craving you get nothing
And in all those lust you get soul
And in all those terror you get hope

Life is a different thing
You wish to get it, it empties you
You wish to be empty, it fills you
You wish to be loved, it leaves you marooned

You wish to shout, it comes to calm you
Life works in opposite direction
Though you seem one, you’re three
Body and your mind; and the next is you

They keep on fighting and the battle continues
Leaving the real you to face the brutal consequences
Neither you can support nor deny
Neither you can leave nor be with it

However tickling like a clock
And moving to its set direction
Making it a complete circle time and again is what it prefers
This is the path they say have set for us humans,

If one tries to change it,
The set pathway gets broken
Leaving not only your life in risk
But of those who are just ahead and behind of you

Though the ones who are ahead of you
Can feel the loss,
And they be fine with time in its own tradition
But those behind you

Might be taking you as a map
And following your set tracks.
And here you seem to change it
To the place unknown

And if you do it,
You might kill your ancestor’s legacy
And they not need to worry,
After all life moves in a different direction.

Published on a newspaper myRepublica's MyCity on  October 19, 2017 08:52 AM Moin Uddin