set it fly into the sky
I watched it soar
higher and higher
over the shrouds of sleeping fog
and clapped my hands loud
in gay abandon
But when had it eluded my grip?
I wasn’t cautious
Oh, now I see my kite
disappearing into the horizon
like a black speck of soot
signaling,
it no more belongs to me!
it looked so immaculate, spotlessly blueWhen the noise of cosmic hiss subsidedand wind withdrew to an unknown hideout,there was a hush- the hush that followsas a priest concludes his spirited sermonIn that quiet when dream and life coalescedI saw leaves trembling in the colddragonflies performing a ballet in the airtheir wings catching glints of sunlightspiders…
I alighted at the station to catch the night trainMy heart besieged by memories of a home, left behindLike a drop in the oceanI quickly merged with the buzzing crowdIn the blinking light of platform lampsI saw a huge crowd- the young and the oldWith baggage heaped on baggagePatiently waiting for the arrival of the…
And people ate an apple everydayTo keep the apothecary awayMODERNITYNow Apple and Black berry eat the peopleWhile chatting and twittering with faceless soulsDay in and day out, all round the clock
On first macho touch
Until sucked fully
As he approached his aged, mangy dogLying still n’ waiting summons, it wagged its tailBETRAYALLife sap drained to the dregs for her childrenNow she, in their eyes ‘an old hag’They dumped the ‘trash’ into the waste bin!
