Mamta Agarwal - ! ! ! ! ! Calming the mind! ! ! !

The high tide
Washed away my footprints
On the beach

I gazed
From atop
A rock…

What will it take
To wipe clean my mind,
Of passions that
Arouse and hound?

More than a wash cloth,
I used, to clean the slate
As a child,
When some one scribbled
That I didn’t like…

I wish
I could unplug
The power supply
that feeds on my mind...

Recall, how I would
Hide in the folds
Of my mother's saree
When a storm raged
And lightening struck,
feeling safe.

I know, this too
Shall pass.
After a stone is thrown
in water, ripples do settle.
What would life be
If one didn't grow,
And learn to go home
to oneself...

Mamta Agarwal

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