Disappointment has a rancid taste.
One you don’t expect;
One that will, each time,
Take you by surprise.
No matter that you anticipate,
Expect and avoid, simultaneously.
No matter that you know
It will somehow sneak in.
Contrary as it seems
There is a pattern.
Each time, the same.
The build-up to expectation.
The garnering of shreds
Of feeling, tangible and otherwise.
The neglect of the knowing.
The ignorance.
The pattern falling in place.
And you tell yourself.
I know. I knew!
I’ve learnt my lesson.
Ha!
20 April, 2012
A Quest on Overdrive ... :) 
April 20, 2012 at 10:06 am
Beautiful expressions! Every disappointment comes with new lessons to be learnt; and yet we are sp unprepared for them. This is the irony of all human existence.
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April 26, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Narinder Jit, thank you for the good words! You’ve defined that irony so well; how we never learn or how we never prepare ourselves for such lessons!
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April 20, 2012 at 10:09 am
I’ve learnt my lesson (so we think) Ha!
“Contrary as it seems
There is a pattern.”
Though we like to believe there isn’t, there invariably is.
Brilliant expression, Usha.
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April 26, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Shail, there invariably is, as you put it! Thank you so much!
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April 20, 2012 at 10:10 am
Beautiful expressions. Every disappointment comes with a new lesson to learn; and yet we are so unprepared for them. This is the irony of all human existence.
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April 26, 2012 at 6:20 pm
🙂 I’m sorry Narinder, but your comment has duplicated… hate to delete even these, so I am letting it grace this ramble 🙂
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April 20, 2012 at 10:14 am
…and yes, there is a pattern!! and we so often don’t see it or see it and would like to believe we didn’t see it 😀
and thereafter, like you rightly said, we do say we have learnt the lesson! alas!
Wonderfully written! 🙂
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April 26, 2012 at 6:21 pm
David 🙂 🙂 thank you!
Underscore that “alas”!!! as we never never seem to pick up the lesson right!
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April 20, 2012 at 10:27 am
I know that ther is a lesson in every disappoinment,but I cannot figure out what that is,hence I fall on my face each time,stumbling on the same pebbles,and continue to rant,that im deeply disappointed that again,i feel disappointed,for the very same things that did (not) happen..sigh!!what was/is the lesson??!!
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April 26, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Vandana, thank you so much for the empathy and for the sharing 🙂 God Bless, that there be fewer disappointments, and more lessons learnt well 🙂 🙂
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April 20, 2012 at 10:29 am
Expecting AND avoiding? Don’t we all do it at times?
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April 26, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Almost Always, Hrishi, and How! Thank you for leaving your views here too!
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April 20, 2012 at 10:49 am
Ah, the (dis) taste of disappointment! But then, what is life without due setbacks and associated lessons? Makes the successes so much more special. I like, Usha Di. 😀
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April 26, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Deboshree, thank you for liking it 🙂 And yes, one could look at it that way too, after the disappointment has passed 🙂 🙂
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April 20, 2012 at 11:41 am
This was a poem about disappointment and yet it left me smiling! 🙂
I think there is this weird satisfaction in secretly hoping for things, while you try your best to prepare yourself for the disappointment which your logical mind tells you to expect. We never really do learn not to hope.
And that is probably the beauty and irony of it.
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April 26, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Aayushi, glad it did make you smile 🙂 Even through the irony! That is the way to live, accept things, smile and move on 🙂 Thank you too, for the delineation of your thoughts on this 🙂
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April 20, 2012 at 11:55 pm
Why does it happen that we learn our lesson and still do the same ..
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April 26, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Bikram! Nice question! Just that there are few answers for this, even if we do go looking 🙂 Take it as it comes! Thank you for sharing in this 🙂
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April 21, 2012 at 6:55 pm
lovely post Usha ji 🙂
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April 26, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Thank you Arjun 🙂 I’m yet to get to your space, but will try and get to as many as possible and soon 🙂 Take care and God Bless!
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April 22, 2012 at 8:23 pm
It always drops in without an appointment (that must be why it is called ‘dis-appointment’). Anyway I too have learnt my lesson. Great words, Usha! 🙂
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April 26, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Bindu, lol! I love that definitions! You’ve learnt the lesson? Good! I still have to 😀 Thank you Bindu for the kind words!
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April 23, 2012 at 1:16 pm
what a superb poetry Usha..oh i have had so many i knew it moments….i bit my tongue and will do it again.. damn
marvelous poetry Usha 🙂
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April 26, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Soma, but you will do it again, in the darnest sweetest way … again 🙂 Thank you Soma for being here and sharing your words and energy 🙂
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