Harmony

Tragedy strikes and we mourn

Destruction is reaped and we despair

Ere’ lies what man has come to dread

But must we weep over every chink,

Every chink in the life-sustaining armour of blue hue,

The celebration of the joy it beholds is long overdue.

How may we relish in prosperity,

While we mourn those who cannot survive.

For how can we thrive,

While we question Happiness’s verity,

Sorrow enables us to appreciate Pleasure,

For entropic joy is no joy we could measure.

Be wary, for it may overwhelm instead.

Be wary, else the conflicts of the many…upon you they tread.

At the cost of further smiles we must refrain.

If all cast aside pain in their immediate surrounding,

Those who fall shall always see the light of day.

Mushroom clouds need not be present,

Fire need not rage and consume,

As we come to realise,

Life has more meaning than we first presume.

Let us rejoice as one,

Let us rejoice as humanity,

Eradicate the borders and monetary divides,

To the cosmos we travel, with no disparity

The wrath of the universe is a mild hindrance, when we take no sides

Within the writhing mass of quantum superposition,

The particle, observation shall unveil

Within the perpetual chaos we face,

When we choose to gaze upon it, as a race

Will not Harmony blow the wind to its sail?!

by Aarya Mehta (11D)