In this lesson of time…

Book: Coming out of COVID.

Location: South Windsor Public Library, CT, US

Title: In this lesson of time…

Page: 58

Author: Shubhangi Saraf

Published: January, 2023

 

In this lesson of time…

I donot know if I can fix it,

I donot know if I can solve…

Is it a daunting puzzle,

Or is it broken for ‘all’?

 

There’s more darkness in the bark than the color in leaves 

More story in its depth than in Them falling thieves

 

Beautiful has been another word for life

Then why in so much pain did we strive 

 

Is it fair to keep asking more from the Giver

Especially when He has begun to return the opposite endeavor

 

My my!! why why? Has it not been strong enough?

This fragile life of day break, is rotting now through dusk!

 

Are we dark and keep praying or are we full of light but in misery!

That we see the shadow of death linger, yet want to claim a share of merry…

 

Be better, be there, be nice, can we?

Or is it going to take life and death to reach eternity?

 

Dark may be, the darkness of the bark upon the trees,

It has a story to tell, of will and wisdom deep.

 

The falling leaves have left them branches dry and dead it seems…

But theres’ more life in holding on, than in fallen colors of grief!

 

Is it green or brown or dark yet growing…

Or is it extravagantly colorful?

Is it flying to fall into the gravel?

Or Is it rising up to be meaningful …?

 

Shubhangi Saraf

(Shay)

10/25/2021