Friday, November 30, 2007

The Unexpected

Life has an uncanny way of showing things you never wanted to see, or throwing diabolical situations at you at times when you really dont need them. It does prove in its own way that it is never predictable, just when you thought you were in control something goes haywire. Isn't it said that 'man proposes and God disposes'. Of God apart life surely manages to spring surprises...of bitter-sweet situations or love from unexpected quarters.
Life in other words as I perceive is nothing but a situation where you want to see something and see something else, something is happening and you want something else to happen...in a nutshell it can be beautiful and gory at the same time.
Times when I know everything is right and yet feel something is amiss I remember the lines of 'Il pleure dans mon coeur' by Paul Verlaine which translates into

There is weeping in my heart
like the rain falling on the town.
What is this languor that
pervades my heart?

Oh the patter of the rain
on the ground and the roofs!
For a heart growing weary
oh the song of the rain!

There is weeping without cause
in this disheartened heart.
What! No betrayal?
There's no reason for this grief.

Truly the worst pain
is not knowing why,
without love or hatred,
my heart feels so much pain.

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