When Memories Are Distilled....... Poem by lalitha iyer

Filtering
some facts remain
sieving
some passions pain
dissolving
some emotions chain
handpicking
harsh truths surface

when I stand
at the shores of sand
the lovely feet
are washed by tidal fleet
I am touched
both by water and
the wetness sweet
something pulls me
something pushes me
down I kneel
down I bend
down I go
and lie
upon the soothening sand
ageless
timeless
undead
yet, a dead effect creeps on
I watch the passing clouds
and the playing blues
forgetting the sights
of washing tides

When watering thoughts
are distilled apart
by the heat of life
hampered by strife
when everything is vapourised
and the body lies at the yard
or at the pyre before the fire
finally what remains
but only cherished fines
what is left
is only earthy desires
what is carried away
is elevators to heaven
flights to paradise
steps to devise
the envelopes of divine.........