Relationships Poem by Umasree Raghunath

This is a world that goes on
That goes on after we are gone
what we leave behind is relations
who take our thoughts forward
It may be the twinkling first love
or your husband who made you dove
may be a mentor who sculptured you
or a person who loved you true
Can be a teacher who taught lessons of life
or a fragile relation of unknown wife
May be a guru who changed your thoughts
or a silly friend who always fought
May be your good old childhood friends
or the ever competing colleagues
Can be an old man who wanted his teenage back
or an unfortunate husband craving for love
Can be just a friend for some good times
can even be a merciless one night stands
May be a person who provoked you to rage
or silently puts your fire down as a sage
It can as well be a friend who hold your hand
having nothing, but wanting to see you in kind
Can be a passion straight in your eyes
or just a child to whom you made a difference
Can be anything that we leave behind!
But all the footprints that are left behind
need to make your life lived with meaning
Then, the life lived has got a true living!
Another world, another life, another relation
Yes, this goes on with unending passion! ! !

Dated: 18 May 2007