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The Promise


Copyright – Marie Gail Stratford

He stood confused in front of the huge open walled-cabinet filled with all his favorite drinks.
“Don’t do it, she won’t like it if she knew you started drinking” his heart chided him.
“She left me, I no longer care about her” his mind retaliated.
After a long look at the cabinet, he turned his back and walked out to reconcile with his wife.
Just because you’re mad at someone, it doesn’t mean you stop loving them.

Until later 🙂

Linking this write-up to FSF on Confusion @ Lillie McFerrin Writes and Friday Fictioneers, 26th September.

Because it’s the only way…

As she acknowledged the pain in her heart, she wondered how much more were left. She thought that she was over the whole thing. Well, her heart said otherwise. Wanting something so much and getting it too is a wonderful feeling. She was over the clouds when she got the opportunity that would make her passion come alive. However, what it offered did not meet her needs, let alone wants. She was torn between life’s needs and her heart’s wants. She couldn’t brush either aside. While she felt that while given the chance, she also felt that it underestimated her worth. The confusion was too much but she knew the only way is through it and not away from it. Just like the water hole that blocks your path when all you have is that path you are on. So she decided to close her eyes and wade through the pain and let it go, because if it was meant to be, she would get her fair share.

Until later 🙂

Linking this vignette to Magpie Tales: Mag 238. Image source: The same prompt.

Mapping’s all we got to do

questions-and-answersThe battle between fear and rational mind
Is definitely fiercest of the kind
Has there ever been a perfect solution?
Yet we take part in pursuit of salvation.

Life’s puzzles break our heads for hours
Does life answer every question of yours?
Forever fighting on, no is what we say
And that life goes on everyday.

But has anyone ever stopped to ponder
And focused without letting the mind wander
If we did so, there could be a bright light
That brings our focus into sight.

For every question, mapping’s what we all got to do
To the hidden answer, bidding our fears adieu
Maybe or maybe not, the mapping to be one to one
But never for a question will the answer be only one.

That’s the point, to seek and find
Let’s not be meek and be left behind
Come my love, let’s live to the fullest
So when life’s buzzer goes, we have no regrets.

Until later 🙂

P.S: I know my poetry attempts are always revolving life and it’s mysteries. I don’t know why, maybe my mind gets that at some level. I promise, I will try something different next time.

P.P.S: Whenever I attempt such poetry, I start writing something and end up with something else. In fact, this poem started out with the plot of “Life has many questions but answers are not guaranteed” but ended up writing that “All of life’s questions have answers, it’s up to us to map it” Quite contradicting, isn’t it? Who knows why that happens, maybe this is life’s way of answering me, by meddling with my mind while writing. 🙂

Rebel

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So many things we have to do
Instead of those that we want to
Life is twisted that way
You can’t change it in a day

Accepting things that you have to embrace
Will help floating ahead in life with grace
What about the things you want to do, you ask?
There will come a time for you to bask

To do something, anything
Who says you gotta believe in the thing?
You can just get them done with it
If your core doesn’t get hit.

If I have questions, I will ask
Settling scores with my karma’s task
That doesn’t make me any less
Me, in it’s own way, life will bless

If you keep your head clear
On a different path, none can steer
That’s rebellion on it’s most glorious day
And in the most dignified way

Until later 🙂

Soliloquies

It’s been the laziest stupor I have ever been in. Past month and even till now, feeling too lazy to do anything. Reading, Writing, Cooking, Trying out something new. Nope. I have not been able to snap out of it although I am at least getting to my routine chores. So I thought I would pull something together on my blog to snap out of it. Here are some of the one-liners I composed and keeping telling myself at times, all at your service 😉

It’s always easier to freak out than to stay calm.

There are certain times when keeping mum helps.

It’s often easier to act like you care than to actually care.

Men are kids in so many ways, women need to learn to accept that.

It is not a necessity to believe in something to participate in it.

Tears are not a sign of weakness. It helps you drain the sadness out and make space for happiness.

It’s okay to feel jealous, it happens. But don’t ever fail to do what you should have because of the green-eyed monster.

Love can only do so much for you. It’s commitment and the work you put in to maintain the relationship that will count in the end.

What’s right is not always easy but still you gotta hold on to the right end of life rather than the easy one.

Until later 🙂

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