A COLLAGE

When memories, painful, piercing and gnawing

continue to haunt us

giving us sleepless nights

and chains of nightmares

we wish,

if memories were like

leaves or faded petals of flowers

falling on earth

which in due course of time

turn one with the soil

bestowing us with hopes of a new dawn.

But,

when memories are

cheerful, delightful and rejoicing

our wishful thinking

of fallen leaves

and faded petals

turning one with soil

melt into thin air

bestowing us with 

enlightenment of our life

as a collage of

haunting, painful and piercing memories

cheerful, rejoicing, delightful memories

and not so sad, not so happy yesterdays.

Hence,

erasing the past events

on the whole is unthinkable.

Let haunting and gnawing

memories exist in harmony with

cheerful, delightful, rejoicing memories…….