Tuesday, April 5, 2011

the barren..the bereft...

How will one care to look back in responsibility,

Where scarcer people have ever with grit tred.

How will one care to see if the land that once nourished,

Now remains void with only scavengers lurking.

You too partook your share very rightfully

And in your duties were the first to turn a ghost.

Where the brooding and breeding was done and over,

How will you now care to see it bleeding and breathing its last?

Albeit, now it does bid adieu

No grunts will it ever have on you.

And so, you take one slow step – heavy with conscience and go;

But other steps are quick to come.

You say, “Well in life we all have to be practical!”

Very well O you! Very well!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

the mad..the market...

the street seemed cumbersome,
with all the chatter,
people seemed to call it market...
so what did they come to sell,
some humans sold objects,
some objects sold humans,
some objects sold objects..and
some humans sold humans..

he slept a nomad's life
in the city of the civilized...
laughed neither he,
nor shed a pie of a tear
saw the money changing hands
and some hands changing the money..

i thought he thought
while all the time he thought
because he seemed to think.
But he seemed..and
once i gave him a coin
and he threw it back at me...

Mad, i thought he was...
after all-
who would not want the money,
it was supposed to be a market
a market...i thought to myself...