Anoucheka warns us of yesterday’s woes that’s past and is gone, in this evocative poem, in Different Truths.
Yesterday’s woes should be left where they are
In a reality which has already disappeared
Meant not to be dug up
Meant not to be sought for
Yesterday’s woes should be forgotten
As if they had been erased by Time’s hands
As if they had been blown by the winds
Being mere droplets of sand!
Yesterday’s woes, be they
Love matters or petty sibling bickers
Or even highly diplomatic disagreements
Should not be kept in the heart
Rather, after having slept over for a night
After having flown to the land being
So elusive during the conscious state
And after having been given a fresh start
Why yesterday’s woes should be treated
As if they had only been just presented to us
And with a fresh new outlook on these
We are to deal with them
With a warm but stoic stature
And a tolerant soul!
Why, since the day does end
Giving rise to a slumbering state
Since that also does end
Giving us all an opportunity
To feel like we have birthed again
Then, pray, of yesterday’s woes
We are to make as if they are the
Caterpillars’ bodies
Now, are we to live as butterflies
Caring never for what we were initially!
Pray, my own yesterday’s woes do I unload my soul of
Yes, and standing on a high cliff
Do I turn them into an invisible heap which I carry in my hand
And keeping my eyes closed
I do blow them away towards the stars
Meant to be disintegrated into the dark mass
Or meant to be swallowed into dark holes
Whichever be their fates
I care not
As long as I remain free from these!
©Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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Anoucheka Gangabissoon is a primary school educator in Mauritius. She writes poems and short stories on a wide range of subjects. She publishes regularly on online poetry sites and manages her own poetry blog. She has published a collection of poems in print, in her country, titled “Awakened Fancies.”
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