To Memory & Memories

Our pasts & their images that we stack in our minds like crayons fill colour in the outlined sketches of our present moments that in turn form the blueprint of future.The past lives forever

The wizard of wonderland

The mistress of moments

The traffic guard posted on the road of thoughts and time

The sorceress from the recesses of the soul

 

That  flame lit in a pitch dark room

That  switch dimming all lights and spelling gloom

Potion that heals or kills

Palliative or poison

That matchstick in a stack of hay

That sudden deluge on a drought struck vale

 

Oh Memory-sweet or wretched

Shaping dreams far fetched

Salt or sugar on the platter of the present?

Whichever surely decides the taste

Of today and course of tomorrow

 

Oh memory resting in letters diaries books tunes

Clothes perfumes every day fumes

Or simply springing from a sudden date in the calendar

Or just another passing moment now

 

No matter from where or when

No matter  bearing pleasure or pain

Once   arisen doesnt let the rest rest

No respite for today or tomorrow

From the grasp of its spell