Tiramisu, Anyone? Poem by Raj Arumugam

we take a likeable thing
a pleasurable state
and go to its end
and then we start again anew
or with something else
or with someone else;
we can observe that;
another place,
another thing, another person;
we can observe that;
we take a cake
(tiramisu, anyone?)
eat it and savor it and enjoy it
as much as we can, till sated,
or perhaps sicken of it
and come back anew some other time
or we come into some other need or pleasure;
we can observe that;
and so we can write a life
of infatuation and taking on
of likable things and pleasurable states
(oh, it appeals to the deepest parts of our psyche
we say; this goes to the deepest recesses of the soul,
one says):
we can observe that;
and so we live a life of pursuits;
we can observe that
(tiramisu, anyone?)