OVERLAPPING SHADOWS

POEM

We are overlapping shadows

then, now and in future.

From childhood to teenage

from teenage to youth,

and now  adulthood. 

While we were children,

while we were teenagers,

while we were youth,

we intermingled, continue to intermingle

and will certainly intermingle irrespective of genders.

Now we have got separated

and are in different cities across our nation

and abroad

working in different institutions.

Still,

at least once, twice, thrice a year

majority of us meet and intermingle

share our pains, sorrow and joy

like chemical solutions interacting in a lab.

Once countless of us had love affairs,

in the college campuses and outside.

A few materialized and borne fruits

unfortunately several of them couldn’t blossom

and had to part ways.

Lovers among us,

however experienced that sublime feeling of ecstasy.

Even while eking out a living afar

we are overlapping shadows.

Human beings as a whole

are overlapping shadows

in this ever changing

world, to be precise……..