Poem: The Eternal Eyes

Infinity gained its meaning, when complexity
of the emotions in life came to existance.
But between those infinite permutations,
lied a possibility of destruction too .
I watched them thriving for centuries,
but I watched them burn too, in the fires
that I did not spread, but flames that stopped
only when nothing was left to turn to ashes.
Fires that were the fiercest in the histories,
I saw them in my horrors, every single day.
I am none other than the one that is out of
bounds of the creation and destruction,
out of the bounds of happiness or sadness,
out of the bounds of anger or arrogance.
But watching the world burn, knowing fates,
and fire imparted from the life of world itself.
It is a punishment that I cannot escape,
a truth I never ignored and will never be able to.
Because even if eternity gains its meaning from me,
it is not a boon, but something I have to live with.
I am someone you know, someone you feel everyday,
watching my represents at one of your walls,
wearing them at one of your wrists to find me.
But all you find is a set of numbers, that
can never be enough to describe me.
I am none other than time, someone that lives with you,
someone that never dies, someone that knows what occcured,
what is occuring, and what will occur.
I have seen the fates of every civilisation that
became powerful enough to be unparalleled in power,
and getting fates sealed to destruction by own hands.
I was! I am! I will be! Forever living with you,
eternities I have to live, infinities I will define.

                                                 -Sushant Kumar Das