Life Transition

Hi Folks !
How are you?!

Today's post is special!
It is my 150th on this blog!

My journey with all of you has been very rewarding and interesting.
Thank you for your support and comments and questions.

Keep them coming!

I am going to reproduce a poem I tried my hand at some months ago and mothballed till today.
Enjoy and Be Happy!

life transition 

we take birth to both our parents 

or maybe there is just a mom or dad.

life is easy 

there is love and bonding, support and security 

resources and opportunity 

there is joy, of a life well lived in our chosen orbit

our friends and lovers, children and social work 

giving,doing and sharing in the small,compact 

a well controlled world of our own.

or 

there is anger and loneliness, 

guilt and helplessness

sadness and disunity

a sinking lack of serenity

we soldier on valiantly, at times boldly,heroically and nobly,
at other times falling apart,devastated or cowardly

every waking moment and every shred of dream,
hoping,trusting,trying every which way 

to paint our canvas in bright colours 

of love and laughter 
prosperity and desire

a life also of doing our duties 

of 

being good to others 

doing good to others,

being there for others

others, others, more others

old others and new others 

but 

where are these very same others 

when we need a shoulder of support

a smile,a touch,a word of comfort

but when those others are nowhere,

we try hard to let go, to forgive and swallow 

though confused, upset, shaken and hollow

in its place now

there’s emptiness,sadness,

fatigue and weariness

defeat and tiredness

and then death comes. 

sometimes welcome, at other times longed for, 
desired,awaited,even appreciated

or feared and unacceptable, unpleasant,hated

sometimes after a gentle warning 
or a long drawn out, painful one

at other times - it simply comes.

ohhhhh -

my world of joys and sorrows 

the familiar world loved and hated 

cherished or tired of, treasured or despised 

secure about or helpless about

my own small world - mine,

comfortingly familiar 

because of its smallness 

where i could be poor little me 

small, insignificant me

and now - 

ohhhh  where am i ????????

my body lies discarded, abandoned 

so pitifully shrunk - or serene and beautiful in death too.

but where am i ?

there are no boundaries! 
there is no sorrow!

there is no pain! 
no dreaded tomorrow!

where is this and where am i?

and my sorrow, my pain, my identity 

that i coveted,and nurtured so heroically,
martyred myself for others, all those others,
where are they ?

aaahhh

i am soaring, gliding above myself

my hard held beliefs are ebbing,dissipating,withering, 

melting,dissolving

my small world has vanished and i am flying  

in this new universe

it's mine !

my own expanding universe

enabling me,empowering me 

loving me,giving me

is this what death does?

e - x - p -  a -  n -  d  - s consciousness?

the constricted, 

narrowed to current life i, myself and me consciousness?

gives the bigger picture 

answers all the questions 

clears all the doubts 

and empowers me 

empowers me 

empowers me

to laugh, learn and plan 

and play a part 

again.

Why didn't someone tell me ?!