Ups and Downs In My Life

We often experience a lot of ups and downs in our life. Here is a poem on my ups and downs:

Life is like a sine wave

Whose cup overfloweth

With ups and downs

One day, you are full of joy

Which turneth into deep sorrow

In but a few hours

Witness a team like Pakistan

Play brilliant cricket one fine day

Only to suffer a devastating humiliation

In but the very next game

Let’s come to my own life

I was going to be married

For a while, everything seemed so rosy

As if Lady Luck had kissed me

Ever so softly and sweetly

A destination wedding

A seemingly beautiful bond

My fiancée and I shared

Phone call after phone call

That too, every one of them was longer

Than the lush and beautiful locks of Princess Rapunzel!

I was surely in La La Land!!

Ah! Time is but a glorious uncertainty

In fact, one of many

That life throweth at us

COVID19 chose to crash our party

At the worst possible time

All it takes is one big bang

The cards begin tumbling down

Like nine pins

From probable marital bliss to uncertainty

From happiness to anxiety

As my mother would say

It was like a bubble burst

My heart told me

Everything would work out eventually

My brain disagreed

I always follow my heart

And thus it was, this time too

My nuptials could not be put off indefinitely

It was after almost 5 months

When God rewarded our patience

It was but a small affair

Bereft of pomp or splendour

However, a marriage is a marriage

No matter how tiny or huge

Now my life was set

Or at least I thought so

After the initial euphoria

It was but back to the grind

My wife didn’t mind

Because, wherever her heart was

Your truly wasn’t there

Slow and steady like the famous tortoise

I began to wonder

If my brain were right after all

However, nothing, absolutely nothing

Could but have prepared me

For the seismic shock

That was about to follow

Cheating in examinations is one thing

Cheating in love, entirely another!

From love to heartbreak

Trust to betrayal

Happiness to depression

And finally

Peace to pieces

It was indeed a total collapse

A la West Indies cricket

A bite from a viper is exceedingly painful

The process of divorce, more so!

From hiding my pain

Behind painfully fake smiles

To carrying one with life

As though nothing had happened

It was truly a litmus test

The test only got tougher

As I had to burn the midnight oil

Two successive research projects

Meant I was suddenly Lord Atlas incarnate!!

There are times

When, as Popeye would say

“That’s all I can stands

I can’t stands no more!”

This was but one of them

However, as they say

“When the going gets tough

The tough get going”

And so I did

From the euphoria of marriage

To the depression of an ongoing divorce

And finally

Receiving accolades for my hard work

It was one hell of a rollercoaster ride

But that’s what life is all about

Full of ups and downs, if you recall

Again, as the famous cliché goes

“The only constant is change”