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"Let it go" sang the ice queen Elsa; Just keep swimming said the Blue Tang Dory
"Live in the moment; Forget the entire past and every single worry
Whatever hardship you might have faced, life just moves on" they say
But I would rather be the tiny leaf stuck on my window on a rainy Fall day!!

Painful present moves everything away and puts you alone.
You retrospect, cut out the toxins and stay in your own zone.
But when there was beauty in the past its ok to cling on to those memories astray
And choose to be the tiny leaf stuck on my window on a rainy Fall day!!

The world keeps changing, people change; you live your life and time fleets;
You can't go back or relive the past, but there is one thing that time never defeats-
The memories made, the tears of joy, the laughter shared and fun and play!
They always remain with you like the tiny leaf stuck on my window on a rainy Fall day!
Within the floor-less room
Of a ceiling-less chamber
Spanning top to bottom
Lies a collection.
Each strand of memory
In tiny glass vials
Trapped forever
Sealed to perfection.

Within this glass palace
These tiny glass vials
Sorted and labelled
Into many a section.
The past, the present
The thoughts for the future
Accurately categorized
According to emotion.

Within each glass vial
A wisp of thought
A caress of experience
A whisper of recollection.
Once uncorked
The memory unleashed
Arising in full might
In every direction.

Within this door-less
Window-less chamber
Alas these memories
Are bound for protection.
Trapped forever
Rusting with time
Or remaining in grandeur
Without external intervention.

One seeks the pensieve
The key to this access
Oblivious to the trap
A pure addiction.
Alas the pensieve
Binds one further to the chamber
Away from reality
No resurrection.

Within the floor-less room
Of a ceiling-less chamber
Spanning top to bottom
Lies our collection.

— The End —