Withering Flowersiin Life Poem by kunjubi varghese

Love is a flower which withers and falls down

Before it unfurls, out of the tender bud.

It is a smile, liquefying in the incessant waves

Of the ocean of woes and tears.


God created man and woman, in the beginning

With a spirit of contentment and a smile,

As he felt good and happy about it.

Finally he created the emotion of love in the heart

Of man and woman, with a halo of divinity

And purity over that, as a quality.

After that he might have been crying about

His foolishness, and for a moment repented his act.


A poor moth believing it to be a flower

Encounter the flame of a lamp,

And burn out its life.

Whatever the eye has earned in this world,

Is dissolved and perish for ever, by the eyes,

In the sands of time and lost in the ocean of tears.