Friday, December 21, 2012

A Tribute to My Heroes

My Heroes


My path in this world has been blessed,
By the sweet gestures of deserved 'stubbornness',
That my heroes taught me out of kindness;

When I met them-my heroes,

The unborn day was rolling down to its close,
Minutes chipping away by seconds,
The sun blushing red on the horizon,
Like a good bye – of a newly love stricken lad,
Unable to depart the luring beautiful face of her beloved;

I was yearning,
With a childlike glee and stubborn simplicity,
To stop the setting sun,
To hold the light,
To dip color from the twilight,
And in seizing and releasing claim bliss of purpose;

When I met them,
That yearning of my heart- they empathized;
With wisdom borrowed from eternity’s yard;
They were sitting on the rugged face of the summit,
Of a tall mountain of insight,
Rooted on millennial young past,
Their faces always filled with delight,
And looked at me, like a seer would,
And just smiled;

Like souls who stole the sun its secrets of light;
Like souls who stripped darkness the aura of its fright,
With a daring delicacy of their calling: to paint, to dance, to write,
To sing, to unearth, to plant, to construct, and to create;
Married to imaginations they were content:
To break horizons, to relive lives,
To capture beauty, to ignite hopes,
And to dare grand banquet with the gods.

My heroes,
Who pain and endure the summit,
Where lonesome sighs and godly light,
Coupled with insanity of courage and fret,
Framing, but a frame-less world;
Fitting, but a mis-fit breed of mind,
In the sameness worshiping decaying world;

My heroes, the artists, the philosopher the scientist,
Who dare to answer the question:

What are your answers for the questions of life?
With simplicity that reads:
Breeding many more questions, not answers,
A respite for generations to come,

Lesser questions are the lingering shadows of deprived lives,
And more answers the routines of conformance,’
we breed more questions, answers are decadent;


 And what do you mean by that? when I asked,

With air of fulfillment,
They  smiled.





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