Sunday, November 6, 2011

Evolution…

A Child with His Dada had fought,

Won’t it be cool to have a World of My own, He thought…

He cried and got grumpy until He got what He sought,

But Dada made it clear that certain rules He ought to forget not…



A hurried nod without hearing them at all, He grabbed His toy, a sweet shiny place,

With an ever burning star it was a small twinkling lit up village…

Dada had given His Child a playground none could have ever imagined,

A sand house to do-undo castles, which was enchanted to mirror feelings that He emoted…



Open for play, the Child with His friends churned in some random spices,

Out from the cooking pan came a blue ball gifted of housing zillion lives…

Reflection of His excitement was a galaxy, to envelop the ball, which was all milky,

For a while they played in Ball’s watery beds but endless blue oblivion soon got them all hazy…



So they decided to play the game which would soon be named Evolution,

A drop of microbe and it was enough to trigger a chain of reactions…

From single cell to multi; from microscopic to a giant mass,

Life as if exploded into an unimaginable survival dance covering all Earth’s grass…



Ginormous Dinos shook grounds with intensity no less than earthquakes,

Predators and Herbivores, reptiles and mammals, countless numbers of species surfaced…

Some walked the lands while some capitalized the waters,

Some remained omnipresent in Earth's atmosphere while others stood their ground and grew only upwards…



Years passed and evolution seemed to have as if stopped,

With nothing exciting to do, the “playground” got a lot boring to watch…

And then came a naughty plan, why not open up the ground and why not topple a huge rock,

Volcanoes erupted across grasslands and an asteroid tearing the sky came down vandalizing all but the small…



A cloud of burning exhaust covered Earth clogging huge ones that had managed to survive,

Mixed with a brief period of cold whiteness and the future was all set to revive…

A slow but steady process of beings evolving began all over again,

With different favorites of the game, the Child’s interest in His toy regained…



The Mammoths of yesterday were no where to be seen,

The Masters of the green lands were morphed as relatively smaller beings…

Chimps got intelligent and upright stood our ancestors,

From then on it was a new ball game as the strongest genome was ours…



Evolution went inwards as it was the brainiest that kept redefining our boundary,

While Science and Math expanded our future, economics quantified our proclivity…

In spite of million years on Man History inked in blood and sweat, triumph and failure,

Evolution once again entered into a statutory phase which every day got more gloomier…



But something was silently rewriting the parameter of Darwin’s theory,

It was Money with man and not his genome that was slowly turning evolutionary…

The Law now read as, One with the most was most likely to survive,

One with the least was most unlikely to revive…



The mammoths of the land were now those with huge cash flows,

Well equipped to outlive topple of rocks or probably even vomits of floors….

The Child made Evolution which in turn made us and now Money rides it ahead,

Now all I hope is the toy owner is a Child no more………

And all I hope now is His best creation tries to skew evolutionary parameters away from Money before He gets too bored……………………

Convenience…

Late after work Raj left office heading home,
With no special-one occupying his time space, he rushed straight to his Rome…

It was past ten in the night, yet the streets were bustling and very alive,
Dodging cars crossing road-sections he very well managed to survive…

Savior of humanity, for no reason, of him he believed,
Would make a difference while he lived, is what he dreamed…

Sometimes though he did see things differently,
But when it mattered most, he acted no less than cowardly…

It being almost dinner time, Raj, the imaginary Hero, felt hungry,
A popcorn packet heard his SOS before he could board his ferry…

The train compartment he got in was unusually hollered,
The word “Convenience” was soon to get his Life all harrowed…

Travelling in an overcrowded Mumbai Local late after work,
Raj encountered a few men, all well dressed but yet very naked…

When less fortunate men tried stealing some bucks,
Travelers lost their serenity and shoved on them rain of endless punches…

Raj, who loved to dream of him as a savior of the world,
Stood aloof munching popcorn, petrified of the outnumbered crazed crowd…

That’s when he was forced to ask himself, how different are we when we steal Tax?
How different are we when we download pirated mp3 racks?

Who are we when we lie to get are wishes?
Who are we when we back-bitch dirtying our own Karmic-linens?

Who are we when we copy in exams just to bag few extra scores?
Who are we when we when behave badly with our loved ones smashing all respect doors?

Forget the world, who is Raj, a Hero or a mere Jerk?
Like him aren’t we all too just judgmental, imperfect and error full rucksack…

Thank Lord; we do have a few good men amidst lost souls in this lost space,
A few good men stood up to stop the mayhem, fearing least of being crushed…

A few good men chose not to ignore and did what was not “convenient”,
Raj, like many of us, was lost painting false pictures and doing what is convenient but not necessarily right…

So shouldn’t we ask ourselves that why is it, when it’s convenient for us, we tarnish people’s images?
When it’s convenient for us, we point fingers at others…

When it’s convenient, like Raj we dream of being heroes,
When it’s convenient, like Raj we distance ourselves calling it “not our wars”…

When it’s convenient, we fight till we pass,
And when it’s convenient, we fail not in passing lewd actions and remarks…

Like silly birds we fly assuming it’s an endless life,
Easily forgetting that there is just one place we can call our true domicile…

When Death wakes us from our awake-slumber,
And our true Father asks us tough questions, would it still be Convenient, need we wonder………

A day in college without my love…

Early morning I got up with anticipation to meet you,

Got ready and dressed up with fanaticism to see you.


Soon I realized, it is the semester when I won't be meeting you,

Petrified, as I knew, a long lonely day it would be without you.


Lecture started but all I could hear is “I miss you”,

Every minute felt as if, locked I was, away from you.


No words of knowledge I could grasp and gulp,

No emotion I could digest, except, I was devoid of you.


With no hope to meet you in the break, I prayed for a call from you,

However, today was amongst those unlucky days when I received none from you.


Only memories I was left with, memories of us having food together,

Memories so jovial that the break got over but implacable remained my wait.


Wait it was not less than agonizing pain,

Wait I hoped I never have to feel again.


Albeit I knew, my wait today is mere hope to hear if not meet you,

Waited I did, but wait, waited you too…


How selfish I was, I realized all of a sudden,

Feeling I felt, so must have you.


This thought made me end my day with self-content,

It made me realize the value of a mere moment with you.


Next morning I got up with novel anticipation to meet you,

Got ready and dressed up with novel fanaticism to see you…


--- By a Lover Boy in College :P

Monday, August 22, 2011

Did I Dream my Fame???

Did I dream my Fame???

Was it nothing but a game???

On me the curtains had once rose,

Like a super nova once I had shone…


There was this day when destiny came knocking at my gate,

Nobody I was then but had already dreamt skyscraper fate…

They called it a talent hunt show,

Like millions I too saw it as my fodder to grow…


In an endless crowd I once stood all night,

Along with a million fellow men, I once waited for my light…

Entertainers fought alone, for a beautiful tomorrow, on the stage,

While an esteemed panel with hawk eyes scrutinized to gauge…


When it was my turn, with trebling feet, up to the dais I walked,

But one look around and I was clear what my soul so desired…

I knew I had to pour my heart out from the moment they say start,

And so I did and so did the world till I reached the very last…


What a wonderful life, I thought, as it was headed to a finale of sugary affair,

Deep within I knew, soon my dreams would be breathing in rosy air…

As I battled for the top I forgot what waited beyond,

All I wanted was Today to be My Day, All I wanted was Today to be That Day…


As the show-anchor walked to the culmination of it all, our beats popped,

As he read from an envelope, noise dropped and the time as if stopped…

I fell crying on my thanking knee when the sweet victory was named mine,

Got toppled into a trance as if I had had too much of wine…


That’s when I recalled what I once uttered to my dear God,

The Nothing me had once cried out loud…

I shall Bang on Your door and then plead guilty,

Cause I can do no more than ask for Thy mercy…


On me the curtains had rose,

With arms wide spread, like a super nova I had shone…

Papers, Radios, Televisions, Cameras all spoke of my glorious story,

But nobody warned that soon all, for me, would feel nothing more than pity…


As the clock dumped a few months, buzz died; there was no stage anymore,

Newspapers spoke of me no more, Cameras followed me no more…

It took me time to learn living and accept the reality,

It took me time to see life as a ceaseless journey in perpetuity…


Years have passed but my heart still beats for the shine of that stage,

It’s the next season of shows and it’s the dais, I still believe, where I belong and craze…

As I mentor my juniors today for their moment on stage, I seek less of blinding Fame,

For I know now that its very thought is no more than just lame …


Yet when I recall those days,

Yet when I think of that toiling phase,

All I hear my heart say, Did I dream my Fame???

Was it nothing but a game???.............................................. :)


It Rained………It Rained………

Dried up and almost dead,

I looked upon the heavens to quench my thirst…

Having turned almost red,

I pleaded to Thy, for a shower out of His mercy chest…


In spite of blisters covering my body,

Sun shone upon me showing little clemency…

Low in sprit, Low in life,

I tried desperately to quarry my ground with numerous attempts but all futile…


Having bled off all my greens,

I feebly looked around and found nothing but an army of million dead beings…

Left with ounceful meaningless breath,

I could do no more but die a painful merciless death…


Past flashing pass my eyes,

In jiffies I tried reliving my growing up journey…

With heat clogging my veins,

I still had my last smile cherishing my voyage from tenderness to energy…


Covered with dead bodies,

Earth wept tearless cries…

When merciful Lords seem to have run out of mercy,

Turning into compost its children, on cracked soil, remained stationary…


Soon the clouds broke loose to quench earthy thirst,

With Lions roar the skies opened and burst…

When Thy repented on Your heated anger,

Heavens collided venting out intensified lightning roars…


As water poured in volumes to calm the Earth,

Steam ascended from the enraged world…

But soaked in Thy tears the Mother soon forgave,

A tender bud blossomed off a million graves…


As I was reborn and all ground was wet with spirit of life,

You smiled and the site of rays of light drawing seven colored wonders across horizons became rife…

With my new life I smiled and I grew,

And so did a million others covering the Earth making it bloom…


A dance of Life and Death,

An Act of Sorrow and Bliss…

A destiny so written to repeat itself every season,

It all began one fine day when the Skies opened and…………It Rained………It Rained………


A Day...

Rise and shine!!! A new dawn is set to break,

Quickly off your Bed, Nine Hours of office are at stake…

Your Bread and Butter ain’t free any more,

So you better button up, ink your pen, for thy, Life-Book’s Page awaits…


With the blessings of mum, our hero leaves home in warrior ways,

Battling a cloud of sweeper exhausts’ aero-dust, dogging the barks of the territorial strays…

With hurried steps he moves towards the nearby bus stop,

Crossing The Lords house, he bows with a request for a good day’s-crop…


Beggar that Man is, he wastes no time to prove the point,

With a heaving breath, “I hope I ain’t late for my morning bus-ride”…

A sigh of relief with the sight of a formation of his travel-mates,

But as he nears, his fear has him begging again, “I hope my ride ain’t delayed”…


Joy is what every Man seeks,

Only to let it be drenched in a jiffy shower, ain’t that weak???

A plight of Man that even Lord might have failed to read,

Happiness is all they seek only to loose it to an ocean of endless need???


Soon he finds himself ridding in an over-crowded bus, passing busy Bombay streets,

Annoyed by honking machines puking smoke chocking him and all living breeds…

Like a rookie Tightrope artist, he struggled keeping his body-weight at balance,

But the wire is soon to break, more humanly soles barge-in with crushing wave’s nonchalance…


As if the crowd was just gasoline waiting to be set ablaze,

A spark and The Devils’ own recipe had soon started to be staged…

Conductor with no money-change and a passenger reluctant that he too had no alternate ways,

The public transporter soon transforming into a hatchery emitting tension rays…


To all others it hardly mattered and none bothered to help cool tempers,

Stops came; people boarded and alighted, all choosing to be just bystanders…

Even our hero less hero-like simply waited till it was his turn to de-board,

Feeling helpless he chooses to let the matter take its own course to erode…


A chase of monetary valued paper that defines our future,

Tension of loosing it molds our character,

Free-living to batter to Global Economy; transformation did make us more organized,

But this journey has also sadly made man less humanized…


Finally in the office a long day awaits him with rather routine work,

Wishful for a weekend, he quickly begins with his mailbox lurk…

Is his life a Greek myth of Sisyphus, at times he wonders???

Why Gods made such meaningless venture, at times he ponders???


Still at the end he feels content that blood gushes in his veins,

Having documented another day he moves on to unknown dreamy lanes…

The fascinating brain within seconds opens for him a boundless-world’s gate,

Another 6hrs of numbness and abstractness will soon have him a new Calendar-date…


Yet another day, yet another page,

With a day older experience, he will soon have a new world to gauge…

Rise and shine!!! A new dawn is set to break,

So you better button up, ink your pen, for thy, Life-Book’s Page awaits…