Words: Time and Fate

Was saving a document to my external hard drive when I came across a PDF file titled "Time and Fate". It was dated 10 August 2019, but I couldn't remember what was in it. So I opened it, and found that I had put to words a feeling I had back then.

It was a very different time: I had just joined a company with a meaningful vision, and I liked my work and team. Plus, my work place was next to my partner's so we got to spend lots of time together. I think I was also getting better at managing my chronic neck pain.

Lots of things have happened since then, and I'm in a very different place now. But in the spirit of Pride and what it means to me, I think I still stand by these words.

So here are some words from the me before "Minerva"!

~⭐️~

Time and Fate

A sky of a million stars

An unfazed gaze on the uncertain future

I am fearless

For the moon glows even on overcast nights

A desert of a single grain of sand

An unfazed gaze on the near future

I am timeless

For time has no hold on a warped realm

If I lived in a box,

I would paint it a thousand colors

If I see the same scenery,

I must be living too.

Just keep grooving,

you’re doing just fine.

Your birth right will lead you somewhere,

Even if the world dances to a different beat.

I will shine bright like Vega

Riding the threads of fate across the galaxy

Weave not to their will

The tapestry of time is but mine alone

Perfection is a canvas for entropy

Strut on the red carpet of chaos

Order is but disorder waiting in queue

Fall with the grace of an ending spring.

The world started from a single point

Time is a slave to relative motion

Can shooting stars move near the speed of light?

Can hope pierce even the densest of forests?

If I lived amongst the stars,

I would paint the sky into a box

If you live in this galaxy,

please take my hand.

Just keep grooving,

you’re doing okay.

Shadows serve to point you to the light,

Even if the world moves to a different step.

Shine bright like Altair

Bend probability to my will.

Shatter the heavens with your thunderbolt

Time flows in the direction of potential gradients

1, 2, 3, dance to songs of old

4, 5, 6, 7, don’t stop just yet.

Life plays to different time signatures

And I am just waiting for you to count in.

Just keep grooving,

we’re doing just fine.

Coordinates only hold meaning with appropriate axes

Even if the world follows a different choreography

Shine bright like the milky way

A symbol of our dreams for the future

Even if it takes the wings of a magpie to find happiness

Fate has weaved the stars into our reality.

A sky of a million stars

An unwavering smile for the uncertain future

We are fearless

For time flows only because we are living.

~⭐️~

Thank you, past me.

Just was your grooving,

you did well by you.

Destinations seemed the nearest on straight line paths

Even if your heart never reached its denouement

You shined bright like Spica

Even as the city lights dreamed of burning out someday

Fear not the darkened canvas

For sparkles and flickers are slaves to the passage of time too.

For those who feel different, lonely, but liberated.

And you, for standing by me all these years.

Thank you for reading! ⭐️💛