The only thing predictable about life is that is unpredictable
The only truth about life is that eventually all becomes false.
Also true is that we must live, endure and enjoy this deception
However momentary it may be.
Walk all the steps that life grants to us
In knowledge that its concrete slab will out last us.
Hold on to each other if grounds underneath become shaky
Let go of one gracefully who is embraced
By the dark side of life called death.
Savita Tyagi
2.17. 2024
Our National debt hits
Record 34 Trillian dollars!
Come soon could there be a time,
When unable to pay,
Our Government goes to war with it’s creditors.
Winning with the might of its sword,
Puts its feet on creditor Nation’s chest,
The tip of sword on it’s neck,
And orders the debt to be written off.
I dread to see it in my lifetime
And cringe to imagine it happening
In our beloved children’s lifetime.
The seeds of war are growing and growing!
Savita Tyagi
Jan 4th 2024
Note: On further research I was surprised to find that U.S. treasury is the biggest holder of National debt.
Memories of past year-
Still fresh in my heart.
Hours of sweetness, sounds of tingling laughter
Moments of anguish and touch of warm tears.
all is intact under the wrinkled sheets of time.
I greet the New year, yet
Bidding goodbye to old is hard.
The year 2023 will never be forgotten!
It’s life changing occurrence,
Lasting impressions,
Countless vague and foggy moments,
Restless and soothing flashbacks!
All is over whelming!
Yet holding on to all of it is comforting.
Each day though trying to live a normal routine
I want to keep the memories of past year alive.
An old note, a conversation, a smell, a taste,
A reminding note of a bill to be paid,
Cancelling a doctor’s appointment( no longer needed)!
All of it fills my day.
To know and feel time’s unbroken flow
A closeness to past is needed to grow.
When by the river we never touch the same water again,
But just to go by the river
And touch the new flow in old surroundings is comforting.
Even when greeting the New year
It is assuring to be surrounded with old memories.
Savita Tyagi
12. 31. 2023
December is ending
Ground is frozen.
Cold, brown and wrinkled leaves,
Reminiscence of fall-
Still scattered around.
Secrets of spring buried deep in earth’s heart.
Trees are empty of bird’s songs.
A red bird still comes to sit on fence.
The geese still fly in the morning and evening
Their noise still wakes up the sleepy sky.
In silence I digest the landscape.
Away from self conversing mind
The view offers an escape.
So many question the mind can put
But no entitled to have all the answers……
Better to put these questions to sleep
Like one puts a dear one to rest,
For eternal sleep…..
So much left unsaid, plenty is left undone
Many thoughts collide …..
What exists and what not…..
Dream, illusion, reality!
When the Light from eyes leaves,
Nothing of matter is left to hold on to…..
The bird free from cage
In open vast, for short visible like a fading dot!
Its existence recedes in the memory.
Savita Tyagi
12.28. 2023
“I am the living body of his light,
I am the thinking instrument of his power,
I incarnate Wisdom in an earthly breast,
I am his conquering and unslayable will.
The formless Spirit drew in me its shape;
In me are the Nameless and the secret name.’’
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My heart is wiser than the Reason’s thoughts,
My heart is stronger than thy bonds, O Death.
It sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,
It feels the high Transcendent’s sunlike hands,
It sees the cosmic Spirit at its work;
In the dim Night it lies alone with God.
My heart’s strength can carry the grief of the universe
And never falter from its luminous track,
Its white tremendous orbit through God’s peace.
It can drink up the sea of All-Delight
And never lose the white spiritual touch,
The calm that broods in the deep infinite.”
Sri Aurobindo- Savitri book X: Canto III
Wish you all peace, joy and strength for this Christmas and a happy New Year 2024.
Savita Tyagi
Dec, 24, 2023
