A Dated Memory

Loving before knowing is faith or folly?

perhaps it’s just me,

the queer me..

I wanted to learn,

din’t know where to begin though.

I chose a place, a path.

It seemed like a way to God, people hustling,

similar in desires,attires,strides…

Straight, left, left, right, left on and on.

Knowledge stifled,

familiarized

and then bored..

Campus limited; to friends, fun, food and libraries

that seemed it,with the right, right and left…

There exists two sides of everything.

Like really?

Pain came with loss, sorrow and darkness

ignorance with hate and rivalry.

All, in light  of experience and love!

Wisdom didn’t make sense.

Our world remained filthy, unruly and noisy,

A wall apart lay divinity

the Garden of Virtues..

A lush green land of silence.

all it took was a right, right , left, straight and a heart.

Knowledge opened to love,

forgiveness and faith

Nature became passion,

beauty, wonder and mine!

For loving before knowing is faith that heals…

I walked amidst people who never spoke!

They smiled with their hearts...

They were silent, I could hear me

Left alone with stacks of books,

if not to read, to feel…

Led into nature; bare..

to witness the very beginning of curiosity!

Now I know ...

amidst all ignorance and wreck,

there exists,

a realm of memory

preserved for life!