**moments Are Not Enough! Poem by RAJ NANDY

MOMENTS ARE NOT ENOUGH!

“Grab those precious golden moments and
savor them, …
They are like dew drops into which life has
distilled itself ….! ” -
Such things I have read, and often been told!
But on cool reflection I find that these moments, -
Fall far too short to even grasp, express or hold;
The gamut of human aspirations, hopes and
passions!
And like dew drops moments fast melt away, -
Under the scorching sun of the day!
We require days, hours, months and years, -
For the vast array of our thoughts to blossom, -
For expressing our life of laughter and tears!
Our love of life, its many wild and orchestral
tunes, -
Our love of nature, and our countless dreams, -
Cannot be contained in a moment no matter
how glorious it my seem!
Since life itself is an image of transience!
Even a life-time is too short to delve its
multi-faceted secrets!
How can a single moment hold all of life’s
love, compassion and agonies, -
Which are like the vast uncharted sea? !
So I prayed to the Lord to distill all our life’s
hate, jealousies and greed, -
Into little dew drops of crystal moments, -
For them to get evaporated under the life-
giving Sun of the day! !
-Raj Nandy
25 Mar 09
(After having written on merits of ‘moments’
till date, I wanted to express a different view
point to my readers!)