Montage

By Shivani Malhotra

I tried to understand Montage

It bewildered me awhile

Many a pieces, so many fragments

Selected, pieced together as one, writes the dictionary

But did I comprehend, did I see meaning?

No, answers my mind

My thoughts wander…to the everyday

Moments of bliss and gay, equally woe and hope

Times of endearment, as of indifference

People who come, those who don’t

Ones that stay, and others won’t

Fleeting glimpses of sunny days, long hours of dark morose

Celebrations that make the heart sing

Minimal intervals not so sought again

Memories withheld in the sparkle of the eye

Sounds ringing a melody in the ear

An endless mosaic of feelings, thoughts, flashes woven as a string

Such is the potpourri of the everyday

Reflections that make for the slow passage of time

Strung together, they make an artistic composite

A lifetime is but the juxtaposition of the heterogenous

But making a whole

The whole made complete from the medley

Made me think of life itself

And then I understood..Montage

By Shivani Malhotra