Sorrow

Sorrow is cathartic,
It cleanses and purifies,
Frees the soul from chains
Of happiness,
Burnishes it to perfection,
It is the meaning of life,
Its eternal truth,
Or so it is said.

My sorrow is none of these,
It is instead,
A dense impermeable fog,
A nameless weight on my chest,
A cold steel in my soul,
A mercenary bullet imploding in my being,
A diamond which etches surrealistic patterns
On my existence, brittle as glass,
A whore which clings to me,
Like the stench to a sewage drain.

Joys are islands, few and far between,
Their isolation relieved only
By this river of sorrow that connects,
Each lonely island, and imparts to them,
An illusion of continuity,
Islands that erode a little further,
With each passing wave that laps
On their shores, bringing oblivion
A little nearer with each passing breath

Recipie For Life

Take a cup of kindness

And lot of Love

Mix it with Patience

And faith in God above

And joy and cheer and goodwill

Sprinkle Generously your service

And you will get angel food

To feast upon all through your life.

Grey Areas

None of us are master of everything.Life is fully of many unexpected events.The grey areas represent uncertainty. In life not everything is black and white even though we wish them to be. There are times in your life where you have to deal with uncertainty. Its like flipping a quarter, you hope it lands on heads and as you watch it flip in the air, it lands on tails. These are the scariest times in life, when you realize that everything is not certain. Most of the time, we create plans for ourselves and believe in our hearts that this is what will happen. But, God somehow seems to change things around when we least expect it.

Even I at times have in my mind how things I planned for so long will pan out. I thought, well I did X and Y so definitely I should end up at Z, but life does not quite happen that way. And sometimes we look as those times as areas of disappointments, setback or failures. But after talking to some of my mentors on this matter, I learned that we have to accept the grey areas in our lives and learn how to deal with it positively. We must have hope and faith that even when we do not understand when things go right when they are suppose to go left...just believe that they go left for a better reason. That the areas in life which seem uncertain will sooner or later become clearer. And hopefully it will build character and some great qualities that will make you stronger and more wiser.