Needs Of Life Poem by Adesh Acharya

After you finish a piece of writing,
You take a deep breathe, lean on your chair,
put your hands behind your head and
stare upwards:
You have achieved your quota of relaxation for the day!

You then rotate your rotating chair,
and look around — as you are not used to feeling good.
At that point, the creaking door diverts you:
It's your wife. She is back.
She sits on your laps and hugs you and you hug her
and you feel happy.
A good diversion!

And then they divert you:
Those thoughts and feelings that appear like shadows,
the ones that frighten and confuse you.
You then take a deep breath, smell and ward them off
but they leave their mark.
A bad diversion!

A day passes and another is already here
You wanna keep relaxing. You wanna keep being happy.
You wanna keep avoiding them.
To achieve all that,
things should be in a certain way
but they are not entirely in your control:
You have to both keep moving and keep being loved.