Triumph or disaster?
Is it what I feel?
What I’m left with at
the end?
A thing or an emotion?
A subtle sense of
pride
Of besting the beast?
Or the harrowing pain
Of the tear in my
stomach
Leaking more pain than
I ever could handle?
Is it the result?
Or my reaction to the
result?
What if I won Kashmir
but
Lost the election?
Is it universal or
personal?
A zero sum game
I am a hero sometimes.
It is how I sleep at
night.
It can be neither
but actually it is both.
Powerful and intriguing. I am supposing that your lines 'What if I won Kashmir but / Lost the election?' are metaphorical, as Led Zeppelin's use of the name Kashmir was, although your picture suggests the geographical Kashmir. (Certainly a name to conjure with! Growing up, I was fascinated by romantic images of the historical Kashmir – before all the current territorial disputes. But I digress....)
ReplyDeleteI like the way you arrive at the resolution, 'actually it is both.'
This is a beautiful and thought-provoking personal poetic puzzle. Love it!!
ReplyDeleteMany thoughts contained within your words - eternal opposites are Nature's big conundrum in more ways than one...
ReplyDeleteYou captured the essence of 'two sides to every coin'...
ReplyDeleteI agree it is two sides of the same coin.
ReplyDeleteThis carries mystery with it.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite old albums. I think it is all a zero sum game. In order to have everything we must realize that we have nothing.
ReplyDeleteKashmir looks so beautiful. Always lovely to read you, Samyuktha. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Did you hear that Mary, Susan, Sumana and i started a once a week prompt site called What's Going On? A prompt every Wednesday. Link is on my page you visited.
ReplyDeleteSo thought provoking.
ReplyDeleteWell written. You have a beautiful blog
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