Monday, October 17, 2011

Subtle


A pursuit begins, a journey starts,
It starts with a foul cry.
I don’t understand, if it’s a cry of joy
Or weep of a saddened toy.

Time advances, so does life.
A long journey or a sojourn is a thing to decide.
A string of time, we try to fill
With pearls of dreams, down the frill.

A battle lost is always lame,
A race won means a diamond’s fame
A boon is it when one’s on the grass,
A bane to find it’s less green than the class.

A pursuit as it began,
A race as it is, life is just to run
In the madness of headless minds
To hurt your feet and to crack down on the spikes.

Of all its hardness, with all its madness,
Life still has the beauty of amorousness.
A feeling that keeps one’s heart pumping,
A hope that keeps one’s life moving.

Love is what you need,
Care is what you want,
A dream to pursue and a will to run.
But then life is so hard that
It’s a chase against time to end up with no time.

When I look back at the end of the race,
I realize, I am lamer on my loss,
Than on the diamond’s fame.
I realize, when you want it, you don’t have it,
And when you have it, you don’t need it.
Life is just to lose time to win a race.
But then, at the end, I realized the rule of ebony
That life is such a “Subtle Irony”.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Latch, Lock and Lose


The merchant of fate, the trader of life,
Offered me a drop of honey someday.
The honey was sweet and I told him,
“I’m blessed to have such sweet honey”.

The merchant made me an offer.
Hard to resist was it.
He said I’d get a drop of the honey everyday
But, that’d be for a favor.

The merchant took me to a mansion.
The honey was housed in it.
It was a mansion of infinite honey,
My life’d be too short to consume it.

My job was now to be a lock.
A lock on the doors of honey mansion.
The return was a drop a day.
Given that I was guarding infinite every day.

I latched onto my job well.
I was happy with my reward,
Until the god of greed came to me.
He made me an offer; I had no chance to resist.
Greed god told me, I could be with
The queen of honey, the source of infinite honey.
I jumped onto the offer,
But he asked me for a favor.

The favor was to unlatch, to unlock
I had to betray the fortress, I had to steal the honey.
But the Greed got me and the queen left me.
Fool was I to not realize
That fate was the master of enterprise.
Greed was a test of character,
And I had to be the loser.

Fate made an offer, to latch, to lock.
Greed made an offer, to unlatch, to unlock.
I made a choice to have a drop every day,
Now I lose a chance to see my queen every single day.
The fate and his agent greed,
Had my test of life and the result
Was etched on my forehead,
“Latch, Lock and Lose”.