The Kiss
The first kiss
Is also the last
As the bystanders watch
The blessed one
Smiles a mysterious smile
Seemingly untouched
By the cruel time
There is vicarious fear
In all those
Who haven't been blessed yet
For the bystanders
Tomorrow will be
Just like yesterday
The voyeur,
It lasts for a moment
Stretched here and there
Nothing will last
No, not even
The memory of the kiss
Final as it is
It will fade
Memory, after all,
Is just temporal
And yet
The now matters today
Like there is no tomorrow
And it seems so hard
To forget
That mysterious smile
After posting the poem I realized that this might be too abstract. The kiss is the final kiss -- kiss of death.
Is also the last
As the bystanders watch
The blessed one
Smiles a mysterious smile
Seemingly untouched
By the cruel time
There is vicarious fear
In all those
Who haven't been blessed yet
For the bystanders
Tomorrow will be
Just like yesterday
The voyeur,
It lasts for a moment
Stretched here and there
Nothing will last
No, not even
The memory of the kiss
Final as it is
It will fade
Memory, after all,
Is just temporal
And yet
The now matters today
Like there is no tomorrow
And it seems so hard
To forget
That mysterious smile
After posting the poem I realized that this might be too abstract. The kiss is the final kiss -- kiss of death.
posted by asuph at
4:57 AM
6 Comments:
nice one...i wish u didn't explain with a comment...why is the font all screwed up on ur blog dude?
By
Anonymous, at 6:58 AM
wow, nice job asuph.....and u call ur blog, incoherent words!!! what the $%^&&*$% ;)
by the way...I like all possible interpretations of the poem ;).... it's funny how the interpretation is so different if u put a spin on it being the kiss of the death rather than u-know-what ;)
"The blessed one
Smiles a mysterious smile
Seemingly untouched
By the cruel time..."
absolutely loved these lines.....and hey, u should write more peotry than ur chronicles....'coz this I can hope to understand :p:p
enig!
By
El enigma, at 12:25 PM
thanks guys.
okay, I changed the template, and this seems okay enuf.
buck, i wondered if I should explain at all. the poem was written in the aftermath of a tragic event. a close friend lost his seven month old kid to a rare medical condition. it seemed almost sacrilegous if people were thinking of the other interpretations after reading that poem, especially yesterday. And the blame would have been completely mine, so I just went ahead and clarified.
ssm, sunny, enig: glad you guys liked it.
enig: i call it inhoerent words for I know coherence is not exactly my forte. it's okay if people crib about it being coherent, once in a while, but i don't want people cribbing about incoherency! Better set the expectations write, na?
and lol @ your cryptic compliment :)
-asuph.
By
asuph, at 9:35 PM
"For the bystanders
Tomorrow will be
Just like yesterday"
This has always struck me about death...very well expressed.
By
thoughtraker, at 9:37 PM
ano,
thanks. the explanation was not for you!
ciggy,
yes. I agree. totally. and normally I won't bother explaining what I had in mind when I wrote. if one wants to force interpretation, why bother with poem? surely prose does the job lot better. like I said, this was unusual thing for me to do.
regards,
asuph
By
asuph, at 9:50 PM
Hey Asuph,
Lovely poem... I didnt feel it cryptic, for a change!!
And I hope your friend gets over the tragedy in time...
-Nithya
By
NS, at 11:28 PM
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