Tuesday, August 17, 2010

growing away

do we grow
out
and away?

or over,
and spill?

or out under from?

do we grow
within
and curl inwards?

16 comments:

  1. Wow, the metaphors are really vivid. Nice one.

    ReplyDelete
  2. =) you posted after a long, long time. good.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sidra, yeah, I'd been away.
    Keep visiting!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Spellbinding. For me its the last option, I'm pretty sure :D

    ReplyDelete
  5. Aayushi, sweet of you, really. :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Indeed how many times we keep asking such questions to ourselves and each time we accept defeat...simply because we fail to come up with adequate and satisfying replies. metaphors dancing with our brain cells to the beats of hula dance- I call it.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Some questions are roundabout things. That's why they stay questions forever. :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. i love roundabout things..
    this poem is so soo ....soft

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anupama, I'm glad you liked it..

    ReplyDelete
  10. That can have a thousand interpretations and each interpretation deeper than the others! :)

    ReplyDelete
  11. Great metaphors...I personally think we grow outwards in circles.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Rhett, we do begin that way and then some people reverse. I believe. ;)

    ReplyDelete