Lessons

What happens when too many things go wrong?

Like toddlers crushing seashells in their hands,

like men refusing to honor the moon at the window

like birds disregarding the horizons every sunset..

Like the poet parting with her muse

And the artist going hungry

When the best days dawn in memory or dreams,

and, are marked as 'what ifs', 'buts', and 'whens'

What happens when too many things go wrong?

When nature's not law and love is labour

When mere existence is hanging loose and

disconnect from the norm

When the entire creation wants to dance

but its music scarce..

What happens when too many things go wrong?

They become right..

Because not all toddlers crush seashells

nor every window is eyeless

neither some birds benumbed

not every poet is silenced

Or art subservient to hunger

Nature is and will remain both love and law.

The creation dances and will continue to dance

because its days are not marked,

nor its music dying..

All its 'what ifs', 'buts', and 'whens'

are right here, around, and real..