About yearnings, loveliness and treasures

My father's diary entry dated 1.6.2002

1

Incense yearns to disappear in scent

Scent to cling to incense

Melody seeks to fetter herself in rhythm

While rhythm flows back to melody

What drama is this between creation and destruction

Bondage is striving after freedom

And freedom seeking rest in bondage

2

Spend all you have for loveliness

Buy it and never count the cost

And for a breath of ecstasy

Give all you have been or could be

3

Into my heart's treasury

I slipped a coin

That time cannot take

Nor a thief purloin

Oh better than the minting

Of a gold crowned king

Is the safe kept memory

Of a lovely thing 

Jaswant Singh Matharu

This blog is dedicated to the memory of my dear father Jaswant Singh Matharu.

In his twilight years he maintained diaries which are a glimpse into his sensitive soul.

I share the pages of one of his diaries here.