Raj Arumugam Poems

there is anxiety, pain, and change
and pursuit and activity and growing and boredom
and all that each refuses to face
and so seeks solace and comfort through diversions
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a little moment captured
many memories made;
limitless thoughts recorded
and diversions and escapes, and theories justified;
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there is all the clamor
and the noise
of ownership, and of events
and of the group and identity and ideas;
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there is the freshness of the morning
the coolness of the evening
and the quiet of the night:
there is life, and there is death
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My friend helping me on a shopping trip
as I set up home requests
that he use his credit card and could
I give him a cheque for the amount.
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There is another way of talking and chatting;
there are other ways.
One could be slow
and could wait; one could listen
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