Ranjit Ravindran - Moments Uncaptured

Embraced by the fate of ageing,
My camera-phone struggles to respond in time,
Causing the best scenes to go missing,
Which I am sure will never recur anytime.

The shutter blinks eons after being clicked,
Preventing me from freezing the time;
But those unexpected moments it picked,
Are images rendered artistically prime.

I muse over those moments uncaptured in retrospection,
My mind’s dark-room recreating the scenery,
Processing them with my imagination,
And archiving them in the gallery of memory.

I wish I were a painter talented,
To reproduce those images on a canvass;
So that the treasure is evenly distributed,
Making my mission as an artist a success.

Ranjit Ravindran

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