Unfathomably Ephemeral

From birth to gravel, we all have a dream, a vision of life

often portrayed fantastically on small and big screen

dismissed—as the fallacy, beyond the grit—grime of reality

but still, we have that dream, a vision of a life, we want

the picket fence, 2.4 children, the city job, island life

as we push through the lows, the highs, and sometimes

sometimes, we pause, standstill stranded, the dream—

diminishes and feels like just that—a fantastical vision

an ungraspable reality, unreachable actuality

but

even if that is the case

often, so very often, the reality—we live and breathe

we fight and celebrate—the real dream, the real golden

vision of a life. Our life. not the idealised version

in the vaults of our mind, from birth to gravel

but the actuality grounded in reality

and though, at times it's tough and far too much to bear

the experience—untouchable, unfathomable

rich in lessons, dense in the good and the bad

the light that shines and cracks across the sky at dawn

the dark that shadows and consumes all in its pathway

the loving but troubled marriage, the children with their woes, the career that came with the migraines and bureaucracy—skewed formation—

envisionment

red tape, do this, do that, meet the deadline, meet the idealised, idolised pigeonholed cookie-cutter shape for your body, life, everything

too single to mingle, too attached to detach from reality and live the dream, lonely but happy, joy with difficulties is guess what

joy—it's still joy

life with death—is still life, love with loss—is still love

joy with difficulties, a lifetime of difficulties and a lifetime of joy—is still—

joy

everything is ephemeral

nothing is finite and nothing is set in stone, unchangeable

hard thought brightness, not all-too-easy cloudiness, is remembrance-worthy

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: Something a bit more upbeat and inspirational. It is self-explanatory, I feel.

Here is an awesome song that I drew some inspiration for this poem from. Not necessarily directly, but this song bangs around in my head a lot.

Here are some other things: