A beautiful poem

 

A very short poem from W.B. Yeats. He wrote this to his love, Maud Gonne, and he was bewailing the fact that he couldn’t really give her what he thought she wanted from him. And he says, “I’ve got something else, but it may not be for you.”

 

He says this:

“Had I the heavens embroidered cloths, Enwrought with gold and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet; But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

 

Cheers !!

Heena

An Unfinished Agenda

Whenever we start some something, we start with a huge passion a sense of ownership and commitment, we create dreams around it and go full throttle to achieve it all.

But then suddenly something happens, and without even realizing it, the pressure on your accelerator drops, and you seem to be shifting gears and everything slows down? You feel disconnected from your dreams, and the passion has died down. Why does this happen?

What makes us do that? .. Is it us?.. .. others ? …circumstances… ? Why do we need to find excuses and reasons to avoid blaming ourselves?

But the fact remains … An Unfinished Agenda !!…

What about the others who became part of this Agenda ?… what about the dreams you helped them see ?… what you started was no longer yours alone… you got others involved too.. what about them ? Do we have the right to make their dream an unfinished dream too… ??

Have you ever tried re-visiting your “Unfinished Agenda” ? … I tried and failed again…. Which made me realize that it is better to leave them in the state they are , as their final destined outcome was to be “Unfinished” . All your efforts at completing them would take you nowhere, and only make you feel a failure once again. J

Moral of the Story: Some things in life are best left “Unfinished”

Cheers!!

Heena