One Moment Is Enough Poem by Ravi Panamanna

(Outwardly we may appear to be very calm and composed but in a single moment the devil in us can really play havoc. Read the following poem based on a report) .

A happily married couple
Young IT professionals
Handsome salaries
Life, an endless tweet

A beautiful morn’
Breakfast hour
The usual chirps
Soft and casual winds

Something triggered amidst
Gales began to gather
Volcanoes sprang alive
Land-slides took place.

An emotional rupture
A moment of total eclipse
In that complete darkness
She was stabbed, now a garbage!

His hearth was still hot
It burnt his thoughts.
It was a total sweep
It was now a useless weep.

He was left in the lurch
He bid farewell to all springs.
Suicide and no more-
He grabbed a length of rope.

But death spared him for a moment
Broken rope left him torment.
He was at his wits end
The claws of death were but firm.

And a jump from the thirteenth floor-
The galore of life came to an end.
That was indeed pageantry
Too short, emotional and self-destructive

One moment was enough-
Life was completely gone.
Beware of the deep lurking snakes,
One bite can vaporize life.
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Ravi Panamanna
24th September 2013