A Sojourn Through Times

Mind often makes a circuitous pilgrimage Sliding down and going up the banisters of time As I hear the grating sound of worn stairs behind Memories come darting in and out of shadows From childhood's flamboyant days Mind scuttles between the past and the present Skipping over the bliss of buoyant youth To life's present weary days and to the future Life's train has sadly changed its track Years, like torn pages, have flown away But the frivolous inner child pines Obstinately for all those, once held dear I remember having run over silky meadows Trying to cut across their widening margins Brushing past brambles and thickets To chase butterflies that came to molest the lovely blooms How I went on a search to meet the winged seraphs That I heard, sang in chorus in Heaven's gilded halls Looked for God, amid scurrying clouds, To slay the ghosts, I believed, had hid in my closet I remember my youth of squandered passions When I scrawled love's graffiti in my mind's wall And carried my beloved's picture in my mind So flawless that no artist could ever conspire to alter. Now I constantly wage a losing battle Against forces that threaten to take away my calm All I see is pain, death and human suffering And life sadly getting lost in meaningless strife Age has burdened me with a deadly weight Fastening chains on my once supple feet All I pray is - Don't turn me a burden to anyone And give me a mind set to accept all that comes my way