Wednesday, August 15, 2007

aditi's missing poem - last time's effort - the real flux

FLUX


Unsettled in new spaces....

New fears, new faces....


The only comforter:

Bittersweet memories....


No one around

to share happiness with or grief....


Unsettled by the disturbing past

Disturbed by the unsettled present....


There comes a smile....

With a face carrying it.....


You snap back at the strange kindness...

Only to apologize later.

You slowly find some warmth

In this frosty, unknown space.


A sweet and smiling stranger....

Who somehow seems to understand

Somehow seems to know.

A twinkling pair of eyes...


Always full of smiles...

A diabetic little man

you wonder at...

He seems so much at peace....


Forever happy.

One gets a little envious...


Doesn't the newness get to him....?

You find him scary....

A stranger he is, and you want to


share your mind with him.

One keeps osmoting


from this side of the fear to ....

Getting comfortable and then again


setting new boundaries....

Fear of getting too accustomed and settling


It builds up into a relationship

over a year


that one is afraid to call friendship

It seems too formal ....


and too shared to call acquaintance.

It freezes


and then thaws again with a smile.

A flow of conversations later


it freezes again

only to thaw again... another time.

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