To Create is to Live Twice

To create

is to avert guilt-ridden eyes

from ink-pots unopened;

whilst fingering Sheaffers lined with rust.

To create

is, to make peace, submerged in cacophony,

with sunlight that no longer glistens

from piano keys now cloaked in dust.

To create

is to raise a fleet of paper-ships

from portraits unfinished;

and in dirty puddles, set them sail.

To create

is to carve verses on footprint-lined shores,

to make love with grains of sand, until discovered by waves -

to revel in companionships deep yet frail.

To create

is to describe the citrus fragrance of the droplets 

of perfume on her wrists; oblivious to the floor

strewn with shards of orange peel.

To create

is to push away political blinds, and peek

through windows of humanity - to mourn

withering roses and lost lives alike on the battlefield.

To create 

is to chart a voyage to lands hitherto unenvisioned -

ones that embrace idiosyncrasies; ones where

there are no such things as misfits.

To create

is also to hold up a mirror to shed light

on the unsettling, intimate little incongruities

of the world Humankind today inhabits.

To create 

is to transform melting kulfis into childhoods forsaken

and weave out of vacant park benches,

broken promises and shattered hearts.

To create

is to worship. To lead the human race

in the pursuit of Beauty and Truth - to unravel

in layers, the divinity and power of Art.

To create

is not to live in memories of when the Sun shone;

nor is it (always) to preach sermons

of dancing amidst the downpour.

To create

sometimes, is to simply whisper

that every grain of sand the waves devoured,

shall eventually be washed ashore.

To create

is to unearth the colours of emptiness; to savour the rhythm of silences;

to teach the world to look at herself, for once,

through a new pair of eyes.

To create

is to give birth to love, hope and justice; to linger

long after one has turned to ashes.

To create, is truly to live twice.

To create is to live truly, twice.

The Tranquill Poet 🤍