Album Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Capturing the moment
and then incarcerating it
forever immune to the
vagaries of time.
It is an exercise that
can exorcise the demons,
that consign the being
to relentless feel of being
inadequate to measure up
to the rampant merchant
of annihilation that time is.
As moments chip away
from life every emotion
and feeling, there is nothing
at all that's abiding.
Every impending micro
second gives birth to a
stranger utterly unknown
to the gobbled up being
of the evaporated moment.
Evanescent is life and
seizing a moment,
pulling out anything static
by the scruff of its neck
is an exercise in infinity.
To cease and then seizing
a moment will prick the
time which is haughty
about its grip over eternity.
Transience trample our
wishes and the quest to
leave an imprint is quelled
by intimations of mortality
that every next moment
keeps it in its recesses.
Thwarting the designs of
time is an exercise meant
for the alert beings who
show the audacity to lock
horns with the formidable
adversary that time is.
Gouge out moments
stealthily from time and
assemble it and preserve
it to feel a hollow yet
fulfilling sense of having
vanquished the invincible.
An album of such moments,
keep it close by to the being
and delve off and on into
its innards to feel immortal
till that inevitable moment,
when the being is no more.