Nuggets Of Wisdom - On Impermanence

Who can resist the strangulating grip of time? That which exists today is not there tomorrow Like shooting stars which vanish in the flicker of an eye Life comes and goes quicker than a speeding arrow When someone dear dies and our heart bleeds And pours our anguish of wordless grief Remember everything has to eventually die Like bubbles bursting in a matter of time brief The only constant in life is its inconstancy With time, our existence could become a myth As every sunrise follows a sundown Each birth leads to an eventual death In the fluidity of time, we are in a state of flux Don't obdurately clutch at something in your arms Instead loosen your grip and let things go With the ease of water running down your palms Every lovely flower that blossoms once Fades in time and eventually turns brown If a leaf clings tenaciously to the tree When autumn blasts strike, it falls down Thus when cruelly expelled by the tree that held it close Down it lies withered, trampled by treading feet To die and dissolve in the soil to make it fecund Allowing fresh life to seeds lying dormant in wait Impermanence being in the grand design of things To nothing in this world, one can permanently cling So, willingly give way to herald in the new, As autumn leaves cannot be laundered for the spring!