Thoughts

Thoughts

Thoughts were free, they now had wings…

The day I opened my mind’s purse strings,

One after the other, out they came rumbling

Like happy children from school’s gate tumbling.

I opened the cage and set them free,

To jump over meadows endlessly

Over brooks, over trees, over the vale,

And over the passing rabbit’s tail.

With new found freedom they went wild,

You just could not make them mild.

It was a strange spectacle to see-

Thoughts walking freely about like geese…

These thoughts- they  sat around at pubs,

Of beer they had many a tubs

And often swayed they fro and to,

Like drunken men are wont to do.

Melancholy said to Happiness

Looks like life is emptiness,

Said Happiness to Melancholy,

“Oh Melancholy, don’t be so Silly!”

So speaking they through the night,

Entered into many a fight

And then to make matters light

Said laughter, “Let’s get out of sight!”

Saying so- clear he vanished,

The other thoughts too were banished

From the pub’s table round…

So, another place they found.

And at the first crack of dawn

When the dew dropped on the lawns,

The thoughts went their separate ways…

To pass their own wilfull days.

And never to the mind did they return,

Though the mind did often squirm

Wondering where the thoughts would be-

Of mind’s tight hold forever free…

Today they sing so happily

Of mind’s tight hold forever free,

They sing of freedom n liberty,

For its one to thing to “think”

 and

Quite another to truly, fully “be!”