Of life and living
www.adhyapika.wordpress.com is home to the musings of a wandering soul. In life’s meandering pathways, she finds her path crooked and lost, disappearing into mists, turning into boulders, losing direction, and as stumbles back into the game of loss and gain, she is often unwilling to lead or be led. Preferring to float in reams of fantasy. Perhaps she cries with Shelley, ‘I fall upon the thorns of life’, I bleed’.
Written by Sreelekha Kopparambil on her blog Adhyapika. If you quote, reproduce or adapt this work, please credit the author and link to the original post.
PS: She writes of what she knows, or pretends to know
She speaks of what she wants to share or keep a secret
She writes for she is her own witness
Her testimony to her fleeting time on the planet
Her words are her unction to her pains
and life was kind to give her them aplenty.
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I would write
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Kindness came
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Of company
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How the universe speaks
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