Transience

Walking towards it,

It was full of dynamic energy,

So many souls mystified by it's beauty,

None realizing what it was.
Troubles, peace,

Triumph, defeat,

Sorrow, happiness,

All were one and none were all in it s face.

Crude it was and yet was subtle,

So many souls mystified by it s beauty,

None realizing what it was.

I entered it, without knowing whether I had ever left,

Continued with restrained vigour,

Took heart from my companions,

Kept going, trying to figure out the way through,

It conjured itself up as I went through it,

So many souls mystified by it s beauty,

None realizing what it was.

Having reached midway, we contemplated,

Maybe just,

Just maybe,

We had never started our journey towards it,

Maybe it wasn’t the beginning nor the end,

May be we didn’t know how it spanned out,

So many questions unanswered,

So many souls mystified by its beauty,

None realizing what it was.

Some said it was a circle,

Some believed it to be finite,

Maybe it was within us and we were within it,

Maybe a universe within a universe played out in harmony within it,

Maybe it was never meant to reveal itself,

Or maybe just somewhere within it, somewhere in it s past, present or future,

Only if those tenses could define it, we will comprehend it in it s entirety,

Maybe we will,

As of now,

So many souls mystified by it s beauty,

None realizing what it was.

Written by Huzaifa Bhopalwala