Life- A Journey In Pain Poem by Om Chawla

Life- A Journey In Pain

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Birth is pain.
Death is pain.
Every pleasure is steeped in pain.
Joy contains seeds of pain.
Proximity germinates attraction:
Arouses passion.
We taste life's pulsations;
Love's manifestation!
Or fulfillment?
Joyous is the moment:
A blissful moment:
We can't cling on
It's a fleeting moment
It vanishes, leaves no mark.
Why dost pleasure soon depart?
Pain it is that leaves a scar.
All the yearnings
All the longings
Can't be limited
Can't be fulfilled
Cause agony and pain.
Life a journey of pain
Or a journey in pain.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
My feeling is that every thing that gives pleasure is also cause of pain at some point of time and whereas pleasure is lived or enjoyed at the given moment and fades away, pain leaves a scar on one's psyche, even though both i e pain and pleasure are transient in nature.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Roseann Shawiak 22 August 2015

Life is bittersweet at best, having joy and losing it in the end causes pain. For every happy experience there is an unhappy one. Everything in life is a loss, for we must die losing it all! There's no way around it! Therefore, humanity exists and ends through pain. Our hearts are scarred quite a lot before dying on this earth. A very thought provoking poem, enlightening and illuminating our lives on earth through it's powerful emotions and feelings. Thank you for sharing. RoseAnn

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Heather Wilkins 15 July 2013

along with the pain is a lot of joy. we must endure the pain to enjoy the happiness.

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Valsa George 29 June 2013

Though life is a mixture of joy and sorrow, pain predominates! What you have stated is so true... joy is a fleeting state, so also pain.. but pain always leaves a scar indelible! A beautiful poem!

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