Poem about living in the moment: What if?
October 14, 2021
Photography by Darina Belonogova and Eberhard Grossgasteiger at Pexels
Ananya Badithe contemplates the struggle between today and tomorrow
What if I miss my stop and just keep going?
Blind myself with the fear of tomorrow
What if I let go of the steering wheel?
Follow with the ignorance of a child and fall to the ground to get my way
What if I narrow down the horizon of my thoughts?
Shut down the rationale and open my eyes to the glory of the road
What if I stop running a marathon to the far tomorrow?
Run a sprint into the present and let fascination take over
Yet responsibility battles will
Expectations of tomorrow stain the journey
Yet the tantrum doesn’t last too long
We’ve had to pick ourselves up and drive alone all along
Yet once witnessed it can’t be unseen
Ignorance is much harder than foreseen
Yet the sprint comes to an end too quickly
Leaving us stranded on a never-ending possibility
And yet realisation simply collapsed into philosophy
The stop was here and I had to walk back into reality.
