The cloud of your emotions
Takes in and releases in portions
What the mind believes
And the heart feels.
The drops that slowly fall
Are experienced by all
At every phase of life
Be it joy or strife.
The hurly-burly of life
Filled with sweetness and spice
Keeps you alive
Or impels you to survive.
As I cry in your arms
Helpless, fragile and blind
Your warmth keeps me calm
The world, in you, I find.
In your arms I weep
As I'm bruised, bullied or weak
My youth urges me to leap
Solve life's mysteries, however deep.
In your arms I shed tears
Filled with dreams and fears
Leaving my loved ones behind
To a new home - loving and kind.
As I wail in your arms
My caregivers love or do me harm
Memory and health seem to go dim
Sadness or chagrin to members I bring.
Once I'm gone, I hear people sob
Prayers are uttered, much eulogy and song
Body shrouded, life's last drop I sip
Getting ready for my angelic trip.
Why Chaplin loved the rain,
Why poets glorify pain,
When attempts go in vain,
When sadness none can explain -
The tears of life will always remain,
Some control, others complain,
We only have to move on,
After darkness, there's always dawn.
by RACHAEL SAVINA GOVEAS
Rachael Savina Goveas is an Assistant Professor of English from Kannur, Kerala. She has been teaching since 2010 and enjoys her profession. Life is her greatest teacher. She likes to pen her thoughts in the form of poems and quotes. Her poems have been published in the anthologies The Rising Cavalry (Spectrum of Thoughts, 2021), Letters to Life (Humrooh Publication House, 2022), The Equations of Life (Writers' Kalam, 2023) and The Holistic Pine (2023). Her thoughts are posted on YourQuotes under the name Ray Goveas.
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