Aarushi Vyas is a 16-year-old girl living in Delhi India. She is a science student who has been writing poetry since she was 10. Aarushi says this poem was inspired by a 2009 visit to Sikkim and Darjeeling and that “often while chasing the big pleasures of life, we ignore the things that matter most to us.” For more information on the place that inspired the poem, see Wikipedia. Visit Aarushi’s blog.
Land of Eternal Bliss
By Aarushi Vyas
By Aarushi Vyas
i am in the land of sikkim
and i feel i’ve stepped into god’s own abode
everywhere i see endless rain
there’s fog enveloping everything
but my mind’s getting clearer and clearer
the rugged mountains, resounding valleys
filled with pine trees standing aloft
seem to fill the entire earth
and the lone winding road goes on and on
putting me to sleep like a lullaby
everywhere i see lush green
on the terrace-cut fields which
seem to lead to heaven
or the overgrown moss covering the moist earth
i am walking into clouds
which seem to hover around me
engulfing everything
and making a mystery of the path ahead
there is a great chill in the air
yet i feel a strange warmth inside me
i’ve come to this place for the first time
but i feel i belong here
it’s like i’m returning back home
after a long time
but i’m pained to think
that one day this place
would no longer fascinate me
man will reach here too and then
this would be just another place
like the concrete jungles everywhere
where e-mails travel in a second but
true friendship eludes you for a lifetime
where here are PSPs and cell phones
but no true joy or happiness
where there are luxuries but
zero satisfaction
the rain and fog have cleared
and a whole new world reveals
the sunshine percolates through the clouds
opening the windows of my mind
and instilling in me a new found spirit
of optimism and hope
that everything would be fine
Stunning! Thank-you.
I am overwhelmed at your maturity in mind and writing. This is a great poem to sum up today and the past, when you think about it. Progress is not always the best. I look forward to your blog.
I tried to leave this message on your website but it wouldn’t connect.I enjoyed your poem on Vox Poetica, and love your outlook on life. Keep up the positivity, the skies the limit.
Lovely and thought-provoking.