My Most Favorite Poem

I am not a big fan of poetry. I just don't get it. Unless it's very simple and rhymes. But there is this one poem by Sarojini Naidu which I love.

I love it because it speaks of life.....a life which is difficult at times. It talks about how everything passes especially the bad and the ugly, of new dreams and beginnings and hope. So I thought I'd share it on the blog.

This is something I always recite to myself when the going gets really really tough and I also have this irritating habit of sending it to all those friends who I feel are in need of a little pepping up. So here it goes......... :)

Transience

Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
Dawn will not veil her splendour for your grief,
Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.

Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.

Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

Sarojini Naidu

Why?

We the people, are such strange strange creatures. Seriously! And that includes me.

We all have our moments of joy and sorrow. When joy is visiting we never ever ask why...but when sorrow comes calling, our first question is WHY?

Why this contradiction.....why are we made like this? At a time when we are at our lowest.....this question haunts our mind, plunging us deeper into sorrow. It happens with every single one of us. Most of us question.....whyyyyyy???

I wish God had fixed this particular default in our system. It would have made life a lot easier.....not to have to wonder why.