No worries. Just swing by

suraj powdel
Poets Unlimited
Published in
2 min readJan 21, 2017

No worries. Just swing by.

Like the pendulum swings

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On that board come take out your wings

Back and forth when push came to show

As a friend in disguise

All you could see were more

Discrete patches of points staggered

Like the horizon drew the finish line

To try out the new lane

To sing the song you just wrote

While your hands shook like

Your frozen soul in that cold

And still there was no snow like gold

Felt like growing up with the swing

Back and forth

Fascinating dream of edges smoothing

Corners straightening and the rain

Being the adhesive will no more be

Sticking rather bring a serendipity

A whirlwind turning 360 degree

But look at life that has brought you

Just another paper degree

Laminated pictured perfect into the

File dusting and rotting there ain’t any denial

To and fro goes the swing

And that’s the way your present clings

So let your legs reach the ground

And scratch the feet on the sand

So the swing of your life no more oscillates

Uselessly but let it oscillate for the

Smile that is missing, the laugh that is hiding

Like it used to be

When the disguised pushed you high

And you decided the finish line

There was this unprecedented smile

Every fucking time

Then why not now

No the swing didn’t change

May be a puzzle

Everything rearranged with the memory you had

Been washed out of your veins

Or you are the clown always

Ready to frown

And then I say- childhood

Made you try for that unprecedented smile

Not for the height that your friend just

Reached by

Because these moments

They ain’t any stories

Like a fiction that you just read by

Or a drama that made you cry

But these are an array of time

Like that of the moment before dawn

When light is about to break in

And you still want the moon.

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