Thoughts like dandelions in the wind
Swept away by waves of air
The mind is an open field
Dandelions scattered everywhere

What you thought was stuck in place
Is as fickle as the leaf on a tree
What you desperately try to hold
Evades your touch and slips free

Feelings you try to keep
Morph slowly but incessantly
Soon the cocoon is broken
Emotions disenthral, set free

Who are you then
If mind and body changed
When you look back
Your past feels estranged

As you try to steady yourself
Try to stay the same
To keep your thoughts intact
But alas, they go as they came

The captain of your ship
You try and hold your ground
In the deafening uproar of the sea
Hopelessly deadened to sound

Left desolate, confused
Mindlessly obscure, powerless
Chasing who you once were
For now seems a mess

How easy it is to look back
And point to who you were
But not knowing what today might be
Makes the mind perturb

When you look in the mirror
Afraid of who you might be
You’ve changed so much now
What do you see ?

Your reflection temporary
An image only to be seen
For no matter how hard you try
You will never be what you’ve once been

Your past becomes your shadow
Your future looming ahead
The present constantly changing
Uncertainty filled with dread.

So fearful of change
The frail mind believes its own lie
Living in a lucid dream
Stagnant while the waves go by

But nothing escapes the clutches of time
Slowly but surely your raft drifts off
So wrapped up in your own delusion
You notice not as your path distorts

Unbeknownst, you look back into your ocean of memories
Realising not how your journey warped
You feign surprise as if you knew not
Of the currents that carried you off

There is no end to this odyssey
The road unsteady and drunk
It is you, the insensate traveller
Whose feet defeated, become numb.

  • Purav