Quiet Subsidence Poem by Raj Arumugam

1
here one is
become alone
for when the time comes
circumstance and need
scatter all in various directions
and each is made separate

one must go forth, move on
live the days and nights
with no fear or bitterness
for this comes to each;
and how lonely or abandoned
one's world may seem
it is the same world
the other lives in


2
let there be no pain
or a pointing of directions -
a resting in one's space
and in what is before one
allows quiet subsidence
of all that has come to pass