Friday, August 13, 2021

LOST BOOK


Watching the picture of a window

in the book that was named Lost,

thinking about the strange title took

over the thoughts of the window.


With only imaginations about the cover,

I started to read the book, opening

with the narrator travelling to places

that were named to just pass away.


Though many lines were spent to show,

his travels and names, they failed to glow;

his frustration lingered, lost in prose,

as early pages failed to impose.


With no hope, I turned towards

the second page of the top-seller;

it narrated the first page as

the writer's loss of hope.


Shattering the belief in books

judged by their impressive covers,

it made me advance to

the third page, which was quite strange.


It started with his revisit slow,

to every place he once did know.

With hope all gone, and heart laid bare,

he found new life was blooming there.


The pages turned, a window wide,

revealing hope, though costs implied.

I was fascinated to find, at the end —

it was me, not the hope, that was lost.


M. ARUN KUMAR


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