--- title: Cold watermelon on a sunny afternoon date: 2009-06-23T10:55:33Z modified: 2009-06-23T10:57:48Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/cold-watermelon-on-a-sunny-afternoon/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 739 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Cold-watermelon-on-a-sunny-afternoon.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2009-06-23T10:57:48Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![Cold watermelon on a sunny afternoon](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Cold-watermelon-on-a-sunny-afternoon-300x216.jpg "Cold watermelon on a sunny afternoon") realizing my words can be twisted and misunderstood i set out to do something new and something out of the way; standing in the balcony, watching the people scamper in to the shopping mall, i grew restless and tired; twenty three [days](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md) in june the heat and the cloudless sky, summer sun shining brightly; biting into the [cold](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/cold-within.md) watermelon, i stood watching the wave of human blobs appearing and disappearing like a firefly in the night sky; as the clown with the big red nose came near the kid with the icecream cone, the giggles and smile resonated through out the place; seeking answers to [questions](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/questions-of-life.md), gathering my thoughts, i sat down to enjoy the cold watermelon and concluded my research on life; i have done the research, here’s what i deduce, it seems i have no inspiration, yet, i find something from nothing, and nothing is what i have done,; on a [sunny june afternoon](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/how-i-forgot-to-enjoy-a-nice-sunny-afternoon.md), the [glass](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-guy-in-the-glass.md) of cold watermelon juice i had in my hand is now empty and i slowly make my way back and continue what i was doing – **nothing**; – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. – Nikos Kazantzakis One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Ariel Durant We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. – Sam Ewing The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. – Glenda Jackson