Memories
Memories are like talisman:
Magician who helps you visit and revisit
The cherished moments of your life
Carried away on its fast-moving chariot,
Nonchalantly
As dried leaves are by Zephyr.
The only way to relive
The times that have disappeared
Into the irrevocable past
From your closely-guarded emotional coffer.
Like a window they present:
The fun-filled school-days
The irreversible youthful look of your dear one
The irretrievable presence of your deceased kin
Melt the distance between your longed- for love.
Memories surpass the latest technology
They are no freeze frames of pauseless time
Captured on the lenses eye or video
But mobile reliving of the worst and best moments
That flow relentlessly, uninhibited and unrestrained,
Unwittingly, at any time of the day or night.
” Memories ” aspires to deal with a condition all too familiar to most of us, human memory and a person’s longing for a vanished past. The poem in general attains its narrative goal but not without a little stutter and untidiness in composition. If ” Memories ” were a ball bowled at cricket,then clearly the bowler would need to do additional work on their technique and delivery. [ Editorial ]…How the first line ought to read , ” memories are like talismen ” ,or , “memories are like a talisman.” a further look at the occasional line,and it is a matter of personal response, might be beneficial ” they are no freeze frames of pauseless time ” struck this reader as overly laboured.