Long before the flakes of sadness covered it up,
No, actually I taught my heart,
Because things are easily understood when taken to heart,
Heart, rules!
It's more stubborn than any other body parts,
I taught them all about happiness,
About love, grace and kindness,
You know how everyone yearns for these things,
But before I could teach it,
It fell asleep every time, snoozing every alarm that went off.
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Time is a great tutor, my high school teacher once said,
It scratches everything you have had in your fate onto your forehead,
Giving an inexplicable pain before you feel it deep.
And all of a sudden, my heart understood everything,
Like some magical festoon covered it up,
It was different, entirely different,
Now it knows how to cut through every event that cheers you up,
How to hold on to everything that makes you feel alive,
Alive, deep down in you, where you are still you,
Not some metamorphosed alien hiding underneath.
It knows that happiness isn't something to hold on to,
Nor something you can earn,
It's something you make, you invent,
In everything you do.
And pain?
It is actually your urge,
Things don't always go your way,
Sometimes you have to follow them to make your way out.
Now it knows that love isn't something to fall in,
It's everything you cheer for,
So when a fair, wasp-waisted, black haired, pretty lady leaves you,
Just smile for the moments she gave you to cheer upon in your life,
Because you know, things don't always go your way.
Pawan is a Design Engineer at Sigma Con, and blogger at pwnbhtt.wordpress.com.
