Until. Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

Until the peak is scaled,
heights will make you shudder.
And make you explore the
depths where your mistaken
sense of being seeks succour.

Until you are scalded
extreme heat will remain
as the diametric opposite of
the bone piercing chill you
are used to through ages.

Until you transcend,
the marshes of ordinariness,
dizzy heights of the extraordinary
will remain an elusive yearning,
which causes endemic pain.

Until you face it the most
insurmountable hurdle will
remain just what it has always
seemed to be, insurmountable
plainly insurmountable.

Until you love, the pain that
maim you will remain as
just an experience confined
to the pages, where history of
love is written in golden letters.

Until you live, leaving behind
notions that pass of as life,
you will continue to harbour,
hollow inanities that fool you
to mistake life for a life of sorts.