Emotional Recollection Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Experiencing self is life worth living.
Remembering self is life worth being.
Anticipatory memory too
Is worth having for the events to come.

A collection of photographs of me
Taken and kept over decades is a few.
Each snap, when seen, triggers my memory
Of the events or the landmark of my life.

Now I click everywhere anything at sight
With my cell phone and put aside the snaps
To be forgotten for ever for no time.
I am not making memories anymore
.
Experiencing self is not to overtake
Remembering self lest it should lead you
A mechanical life, wholly materialistic.
Have a few with which to be emotional.
12.04.2016