Chasing in Circles

Circular or Linear? 

 "..Unless time and thoughts aren't really linear. And we're following a circular pattern. We're back to the beginning now. Circles and circles later, we'll be back again.", he said.

"Oh, I think I understand now. Shakespeare thinks so too, doesn't he? In his poem, Seven Ages of Man.", she said. 

"Last scene of all, 

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness.."

There is a child in each of us. There is a deep rooted desire to revisit the past, to relive our childhood and to grow up once again.. A desire to relish candy floss, ride on carousels and watch cartoons.

I decided to take the circular route to childhood and back. And on this journey, I made two pit stops which I reckon most of you will make with me..

The Wizard of Oz 

"Somewhere over the rainbow

Skies are blue,

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true"

And of course, 

The Sound of Music 

And on my way back, I take a little childhood with me. 

I take a little rainbow, I take a little music. 

And in 'second childishness' 

I rewrite -

They guzzled down bottles of rainbows,

The ebony violets to the ivory yellows.

The coloured crescent , an intoxication,

A figment of their own imagination.

They guzzled down bottles of melodies,

The seven syllables, Do re mi fa sol la tis.

The notes into silence, a transformation,

The music in their minds, an illusion.

Rainbows and melodies, bottle after bottle,

The victims of an unfathomable guzzle,

It rained in all hues and it rained no more,

The sun’s shining song, they sober.

Oh, it was a drunken love.

Go on, round and round in circles. Go on, and chase your childhood.