The Unfinished Chapter

Chapter 99

One chapter ends and another begins
Life she was told is about chapters
But is it?

What about the unfinished chapters in between?
Chapters stay unfinished…till she’s ready to close them
Some memories make her smile
Others are like the treacherous sword on the gallows

A constant fight between happiness and sorrow
Hope and defeat
Is she really turning these pages?
Time is surreal

She looks at the eyes in the mirror
She knows the feeling only too well
She doesn’t need a bookmark for this
She goes back anyway

Is it her or is it life?
If it’s her, she has a solution
If it’s life, she still has a solution

No more going back chapters
No more bookmarks
This is one chapter that is compelled on staying unfinished
This is one dance she’s dancing alone

She laughs at the irony of it all
Her mind takes her back…but only just
Her aching heart and tired soul consume her
They bring that unfinished chapter to her fore again

Time, time they say has the answer
This is one time she quit on time
Will her chapter remain unfinished?
Or is the unfinished chapter really a finished one?

4 comments:

Ana said...

Very well written. The best thing is that we all hv such unfinished chapters in our lives. Still I'd like to point out

phrases like "compelled on staying unfinished" and "aching heart and tired soul consume her" are more prosaic. They seem to break the continuity in a poem otherwise well-thought. Just a reader's point of viw. Do keep posting!

Pankaj said...

i can sense this is personal. but i like the larger thought you have wrought. life is not chapters, we just like to imagine it in such compartments, so that there is a feeling of progress.

Unknown said...

Thanks for the appreciation and the feedback Ana. And yes Pankaj, this is straight out of my soul and the soul of the universe.

Ana said...

u are welcome Nish. Would love to read more stuff from you

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