-CHANGES

 

Once upon a time, 

Change came knocking, I ignored, 

I walked away and it walked closer, 

I ran and it chased faster—

It always won, because it was forever. 

And I went through these changes, 

But I don't know whether

The changes changed me

Or I became the change itself

Because this wasn't temporary. 

And changes were never permanent, 

They were a long life cycle 

With it's impact permanent, 

While it maintains to be temporary

Yet permanent part of my life.

And it happens that changes

Were what I became slowly, 

Changes were what made me

And even when I die

Change would still happen to me.

And every change I went through, 

I realised, that they have been

There all along, but I was just too late

Every time, to recognise but run more

From these changes as always. 

Because they were a permanent cycle 

And I never understood that,

I looked for permanence in a

Temporary world, where everything

Was temporary as my life, as me there.

And changes still changed me

It never gave up, I was changing

And I would still be changing forever 

Change was my friend all along

And still always would be one. 

It'd still always be a friend, 

A friend that I despised 

And I was ignorant of, whilst it

Changed me, and I decided 

Whether it was for better or worse. 

Changes changed the changes in me

Like a friend it stayed persistent

Till I was through it all, 

Happy, sad, or depressed 

A change was change despite. 

Once upon a time, 

Change came knocking, I ignored, 

I walked away and it walked closer, 

I ran and it chased faster, 

It always won, because it was forever. 

—S. A. Khan

Read More 😘