🌷Time is d remedy...
Poetess : Tilottama Vijay Lele

In this world everything changes
People, times n our Life also changes

Times when we face tragic events,
Our heart aches n we feel helpless...

When we look closely at our hands,
Noticing changed lines, gives us pangs

Some R pale n gentle, like our thoughts
They come-go n pass without any costs...

Some R light, barely there like moments
Without stirring any sentiments...

Some R darker, pressed deep into skin
As if carved by years of holding things

We keep on staring at our hands often
Noticing lines carrying a quiet illusion…

Proof that events leave effects behind
Often they're different than imagined

When we're sad, air feels heavy
It's visibly difficult to breathe easy

Like spending a day with invisible rain
As if falling from above Aeroplane

Pain is somewhat strange like that
It rarely arrives with announcements

It appears to settle at d corner of d chest,
N waits there patiently like a threat

For a while, we try to ignore that
With distractions, conversations, tasks,

But pain never subsides when it's ignored
It'll wait-n-wait as pain is a patient bird

Like sky that keeps pretending to be clear
N we've to face d rain's heavily pours…

Some evenings R unusually quiet.
N thoughts echo louder to give stress

D memories sit down besides us
N they're without any invitations

In those moments we finally realize
D space certain things occupy in our life.

When memories R gone it's empty space
Letting go won’t be at once, like a race…

Der isn't a final moment of clarity.
Often it's loosening of d grip on reality

A quiet sense of losing something
That we were tightly holding

Der is a sadness in that realization.
Just a soft ache that settles down

But beneath all of that pain,
Some quiet changes do happen

Like underground roots growing quietly
While d surface looks still n empty.

Like breathing becomes easier again.
Some way humour begins to entertain

Same way past memories stop hurting
As sharply as they once did.

Der is a strange tenderness in surviving
A quiet sense that time keeps moving.

All won't be easily healed or understood
But d storm-filled-sky will begin to fold

Der will be many ups n downs to face…
Time is d remedy, we need to give space

🌷@Tilottama Vijay Lele
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