Nothing Ever Stays

Nothing Ever Stays

Nothing much to log in the records

Have not gained anything

Nor lost what was mine

Realisation has seeped in

Through countless cracks

Left by wilting roots of hope

That nothing ever stays

Not even in the fist of your palm

Though the churning won’t stop too soon

Pain pleasure and joy mixed in a goo

Fermented over time

It’s foul vapours reaching

Every crevice of the mind

One again enlightening in a bright flash

It’s time to empty and clean oneself

For no one or nothing ever stays

And even if they stay

Will almost always turn foul

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar