Heart is a Lonely Traveller

Heart is a lonely traveller
Going through the maze of life
Each day it meets a stranger
Each day a new strive...

The road is long, sometimes a storm,
Sometimes a sunny day
Sometimes a chilly frost sets in
Sometimes it's spring and gay
Sometimes the night is very dark
Sometimes the pain is very stark
Sometimes it sinks into deep quagmire
Of cavernous depression and anguished fire

Sometimes it rises to a blissful high
Rides on the crest of waves
Of love, passion, ecstasy and joy
The world comes alive with the sound of music-
Soul-stirring melody
Birds of peace come and rest,
Nest in its canopy
A garden full of flowers blooms
Fragrant, sunny in ecstasy
How it swells with inner pride,
Is akin to no other bliss
heart moves with rhythmic strides...

And, when the spring of love is over,
The summer of bloom is gone:
Hell fire rages deep within
Scorches every ear of corn-
So, lovingly nurtured within the bosom
without a bit of scorn-
Then chilly winter sets in the heart-
It is unbearable!
But soul longs for summer again-
It is incorrigible!

Heart is a lonely traveller
Going through the spring and storm
Through Night and Day
Through Dusk and Dawn...

Heart is a lonely traveller
Enriched along the way...
Unknown is the destination
Unknown is the way...



Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi




Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-06-25 at 05:05

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angelwings
Very Inspiring.
2007-06-30


Kathy Lockhart
beautifully expressed Zoya. Our hearts travel these roads and we surely must follow for what else are we do to? Along the way we learn, we experience, we cope, we hope, and then we live life to its fullest whatever that may mean. Dark becomes light, light becomes dark, day to day, life happens and love happens if we are fortunate enough to find it. xx
2007-06-29


M Heathcote
It is incorrigible!

I love all the above!
((Zoya))
especially the...
Hell fire rages deep within
Scorches every ear of corn

Truly wonderful words x
2007-06-26


kip
Zoya dear, you never cease to capture, captivate, move me. This is brilliance at its peak, skill at best. You inspire me to write the more...I can identify with heart being a lonely traveller...
2007-06-25


martin pande
you have astonishing skills in poetry, you should have been a poet we miss you but you are one.
2007-06-25


Aashish Thakur
what a great title, just loved it...good poem....
2007-06-25


penfold18
As usual you manage to make the comparison into such a vivid image fraught with emotional turmoil as well as love and warmth, a pleasure to read Zoya.
2007-06-25