BALLOONS AND MOMENTS: a sonnet

BALLOONS AND MOMENTS: a sonnet


The days and events are like gas balloons
That go up once never to return back;
Their memories may return like typhoons
And bring back those moments that now we lack.

When we release the balloons in the sky,
We let them go off without further thought.
Why don’t the same principle we apply
And let old memories bother us not?

It’s better to let bygones be bygones
And not ponder too much on moments past.
Remember that no one in the world moans
For those who can’t their mental burden cast.

My friend, do not hold on to old moments.
Freedom in life such a habit prevents.



* Written for “Words In Motion Poetry Contest”, "Invalid Item" , hosted by ”, 2nd round, February 2010, around the prompt: Balloon.


M C Gupta
26 February 2010