Horizon Poem by Om Chawla

Looking far into the distance,
Earth seemingly meets the sky
And forms a line we call horizon.
Earth and sky so very different in character
Look in yearning embrace;
Can different identities ever meet?
Is this an illusion or misplaced belief?
Horizon is in fact a limitation
Of our ability to look beyond this haze.

Late in the evening
As sun goes beyond our visions range
Drowning beyond the illusory horizon
And plunged in darkness we fret in gloom
Light it casts beyond the reach of vision;
'Horizon we know is an illusion;
And light transcends beyond this barrier
TO where our senses can't perceive.
Light can't perish and remains aglow
Reemerging to vanquish the darkness
And illumine the environ once again
................again and again
Horizon a myth, lacks identity
Light transcending beyond this haze.

In the evening of his life
Frail in body, fickle in mind
Man sees in the distant horizon,
Where earth illusively seems to end,
Life embracing death. An illusion;
Finite seems to meet infinity;
And yet soul remains beyond perception
Death an illusion much like horizon,
Soul lives on beyond our vision
That life our senses cannot perceive.
Horizon- a limitation or an illusion;
Horizon- a symbol of hope or of transcendance.