Life - an Illusion?

Helter-skelter we run everyday

Caught up in life’s daily race

Friends galore, work uninterrupted

Give meaning to living everyday.

Studies & books – life’s worth for some

Money & work – sustenance for many

For others – collectibles that give some relief

Status – a defining post for many.

Running after goals, at cost of some others

Is cause of pain too many;

Changing goal posts, where do they end?

A never ending race for many.

Good health enjoyed without a thought

Taking the body for granted.

It takes an illness to bring in some thought

And a lifestyle reformatted.

Realising dreams, Life’s sudden jerks

Success galore, Steep learning curves  

Here today, gone tomorrow

Wisps in the air, tricks of the mind.   

Attempting to understand what matters most

A lifetime’s journey for some

Till a pause at death’s stark post

Life’s kaleidoscope, still and dark.   

Here today, gone tomorrow

The mind struggles to make sense

Something and nothing – twin sides to being

Essentials to living, now and the morrow.

From nothing to nothing, no words need be

A sense of being, feelings deep within

Hope, faith and love, a reason to be

Abiding, ever present, forever within.
 - Ann Joseph

List of poems penned:
Blessed are thy ways oh Lord http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/blessed-are-thy-ways-o-lord.html
Life - an Illusion http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/life-illusion.html
An Ode to my mother - http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/an-ode-to-my-mother.html
Remembrances http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/remembrances.html
Aloneness http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2013/10/aloneness.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/moments.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/when-love-finds-self.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/12/what-is-love.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/the-dance-of-truth.html