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O to live and let go

If what I call an end, beginning is,
Whence new destiny dares, ‘O ye soul, grow',
When all beginnings but as end it sees,
And all ends a new beginning in toe,
Saying, ‘O let me give thee a young heart,
‘And I shall now rekindle thine spirit,
‘That thine beginning get a balmy start',
I wish my life's journey is as well lit.

If only I learn to live and let go,
And be in tune with Nature, not a beast
In fight, fright, nor flight— one that does know,
Undivided one — not a mass of mist!

Is not, what the caterpillar calls end,
Be for butterfly new birth on the bend?
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Sonnets often get born on the cusp of unresolved dilemmas,
as this one was. Here, after an introduction— all the eight
lines spoken as if in one breath, there comes the dilemma,
‘If only I learn to live and let go'. The sonnet ends in universal
philosophy a couplet, still unresolved.

The rhyme scheme is ababcdcd bebe ff.
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- Sonnets | 03.09.11 |

poem by Aniruddha Pathak
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