Our Earthly Life

Don’t miss this brilliant composition by Goutam Dutta — Our Earthly Life

A single cell,
Latching on to another.
Then begins the process of building
A complex net.
Multiple cells
Latching on to each other,
Interconnected,
Chaos within a boundary,
Orderly chaos-perhaps?

Within this chaos,
Life throbs, thrives,
Picks up ideas, images,
Leading to some more chaos
In thought process,
In relationships,
Generation of stereotypes,
Fixated notions.
 
As time progresses,
The web becomes more complex,
Knotted, twisted-
Like many balls of wool
Opened all at once,
Leading to a complete mess
Difficult now to unravel
Find the ends.
 
With time, the tangled mess
Leaves one helpless,
And peace comes
Only when everything stops;
Eternal rest!