Poetry: ‘Never have we ever’

‘Never have we ever’, submitted by Mamta Sofat, is about retrospecting on various possible reasons of our unending and quite similar web of problems. It provokes one to think, realise, and positively take various behaviours of themselves as well as others into account with an open mind in order to understand and look at things with a different point of view.
Artwork is also by Mamta Sofat’s “polaroid series” out of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Never have we ever,
realised that people forget what they’ve said.
Never have we ever,
realised that we too forget what we’ve said.
Never have we ever,
realised how change is so constant not each day but each minute.
Never have we ever,
realised that meeting a person after a years gives us shock waves of emotions to see those changes.
Never have we ever,
realised that even our change is also giving the similar shock waves to someone else.
Never have we ever,
realised how easy it is to forget our thoughts and sayings.
Never have we ever,
realised that each day we need to revive our thoughts and know who we really are.
Never have we ever,
realised that it’s easy to let go if there were no ego issues or selfishness.
Never have we ever,
thought the possibilities of somethings to be better.
Never have we ever,
thought to take up a challenge, just for fun.
Never have we ever,
thought of daring to follow our dreams.
Never have we ever,
learnt lessons from our lives or from others’.
Never have we ever,
valued our own possessions.
Never have we ever,
tried being fully satisfied.
Never have we ever,
tried to get inspired by successful friends and strangers without getting jealous.
Never have we ever,
looked into our specialties.
Never do we ever,
cherish the priced possessions/talents withheld in ourselves.
Never do we ever,
stop playing the blame game.
Never do we ever,
start living our own life.
Never have we ever,
not taken time for granted.
Never have we ever,
truly known ‘who we are?’ & ‘what do we want?’
Never have we ever,
tried not to give up.
-Mamta K. Sofat

