Faces speak and so do i

After writing a post that expressed the intended expression behind my first poem
'Is it about reaching out or connecting within' i am now writing this post to convey the intended expression behind my second poem 'Theres a story behind each line'. So here i go..

Unlike my first poem this poem was not an abstract piece and i had a clear message here which i wanted the reader to receive.
Wrinkles in this poem were symbolic of the physical wear and tear that happens to the human body with age.
A lot of people find it hard to come to terms with these changes as they age and hence fight with these changes artificially to remain physically young and beautiful.
Through the poem i was trying to express that these changes happen for a reason. These changes are nature's way of letting one know how much he has learnt and how has he fared in his life.
That is why wrinkled faces speak so much for the kind of life a person has led. If a person has led a life of satisfaction his face expresses relief(think Mother Teresa) if throughout his life he had felt that life has dealt him a raw deal then his face expresses discontent or if he has led a life of utter recklessness which he now repents then his face expresses sorrow or remorse
( thus the line in the poem then drew lines of sorrow remorse or relief).
Faces can tell a life of ignorance from a life of enlightenment(think Abraham Lincoln).
Fighting with these wrinkles is to ignore what nature has to say and the artificial beauty attained is plastic (think Simi Garewal or Michael Jackson).
It is like using make-up to cure chicken-pox.

So don't fight with age instead age gracefully and beautifully while doing your deeds.
This was the intended expression.

Feeling abstract

Recently my friend Ashutosh visited this blog and left the following comment for my poem

'Is it about reaching out or connecting within'

"all i can say is that to me it looks like a collection of contrasting sentences and if that is poetry all the best buddy"

Now the poem is an abstract piece and thus different people do see it differently (beauty in the beholder's eye all over again) but this comment prompted me to express what i was feeling when i wrote the poem. So read on..

Through the poem i was trying to express the awe that one experiences when one takes a break from the monotone of a mechanical existence to experience life.
It was life in its various vagaries that every line of the poem expressed.

Contrast was used to highlight the astonishing sense of beauty which is simulataneously present in things which are as disparate as a green jungle and a dead autumn leaf (and of course all other such examples used in the poem).
The questioning tone of the poem was used to express the inquisitiveness that is an inherent part of any human being.

And the last line which is also the title of the poem was a reiteration of the fact that it is the activity of the element of life within us that springs into action every time we see nature in its most unadulterated form causing a deep sense of awe somewhere within us.

After reading this i will request Ashu and all others who shared the same feelings as his when they read the poem to revisit the poem, may be this time it will convey something more than what it did when you read it the last time.

My next post also expresses similar feelings but in a very different way.
And yes the medium this time will be prose and not verse.

So please do read the story of Alex coming up very soon.