1 <br /> <br />This world will finally forget everything, <br />Sooner or later things will fade away. <br />Yet you ask me if I remember <br />Your words of yesterday! <br /> <br />Will a plant remember how many flowers <br />Bloomed in yesteryear's spring? <br />If you ask a bird, will it recall, <br />How many tunes did it sing? <br /> <br />Does an ocean remember how many rivers <br />Have flown into it and become its part? <br />Does the sky remember how many stars <br />Have shone or fallen from the very start? <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />We owe our very existence <br />To our memories, you and I - <br />We mean something to one another <br />When we remain in each other's memory. <br /> <br />Every human being attempts to frame <br />As many memories as he can <br />What a writer or an artist creates <br />Is limited by his memory span <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />But thank goodness that our memories <br />Will fade out over time! <br />If our memories prevailed across births <br />Life would be a ghastly pantomime - <br /> <br />Being able to forget <br />Is such a gift to mankind - <br />Every child must learn the alphabets <br />After a complete unwind <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />If we pile memories on top of memories <br />They will simply clutter up our inside <br />We must throw things away once in a while, <br />Failures, victories, our pains, our pride - <br /> <br />Take a leaf out of the book <br />Of a tree that sheds in the winter - <br />Remember the smile of Gommata, <br />Shed and stand lighter<br /><br />Ravikumar C.P.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beyond-memories/
