Life like milk

a poem by Ramya Ganeshmurthy

Milk is white and pure,
So is our pure soul,
Milk is tasteless without sugar,
So is life without love,
When kept too long without boiling, it turns sour.
So does life turn hard, without experience.
With such purity is milk, but to be spoiled by desires,
Milk and life are alike in nature
Though not so in the reality of the world.
Lastly, milk does not last forever and so does life.