Ode To The Unknowns

By Aparajita Basu

Wherever I go I leave pieces of me,

For new facets to experience, for new things to see,

There's always something to give and something to take,

Quid-pro-quo is the way to savour life's clambake.

Let's do away with all the pretending,

Just know every beginning is coupled with an ending.

To usher all the new with the crack of dawn,

We lay the mourning at rest for the momentary gone.

So do I corrode or do I gain?

Let's not ponder, it¡¯s all in vain..!

'cause sometimes to grow is to shed the old,

Beating out all the odds that keep us in the mould.

So gaze out of that hole, gaze out a little more,

From mountain tops down to the gleaming shore.

For the quest of the great unknown,

But never forget, the journey is only for your lone.

By Aparajita Basu