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Time will usher us to somewhere again Wherever it may be, dissatisfaction can only be derived Dissatisfied with time and space I always quarrel with its algorithm Only a wormhole can upset its equation When the post-pandemic dilemma wreaks havoc On my once perplexed identify by existentialism And now, Time is in a loop Trapped in the darkness of this abyss Groping for a drop of light It moves but darkness is everywhere I can hear the groaning of the dissatisfied souls With unnumbered agonies And in this darkness no one can see others Yet the pain can be felt And in this Wasteland, no one is expecting a Godot

I too had a dream Not of an uncommon kind Like every mother does have Yet I'm hoping against hope Though shattered still I've something to mollycoddle My joy knew no bounds As you walked without my aid I found my heaven in your titters I enjoyed the virtue of being a mother I told you to stick to the values Yet I loved your fibs and figments One askance was enough for you To spill the beans of your trivial lies My frowned face was enough for you To promise me over a thousand times That you would never be mischievous In the nights I bore your kicks and cries Yet I poured lullaby into your ears To make you calm and comfortable In the days I heard your frivolous complaints With patients Unnumbered were my sleepless nights and anxious days Yet I was contented For, you are my heaven Now after all these years I feel lonely Though I'm in the midst of the like-minded people I know you are playing hide and seek with me Just like old days But I would pop up if I saw your glistened ey...

Let me complete this melody Before the dawn blushes with its vermillion tint For I am an ardent admirer Of the Goddess of the dawn And when I impress Aurora with my humble song She will wipe away all the tiredness Of the long sleepless night By the warmth she radiates and The warmth, that she imparts, will ignite my fancy And when we have an ephemeral sojourn in the prime of the day The whole nature will be seen delighted

The clouds are cosmopolitan Which are spread all over the welkin Without even heeding the contentious frontiers They float, fly and flee Appear and disappear in no time When they are benign, they are artists Who draw the perfect ephemeral art in the firmament When they are hostile, they are ferocious And lash out the dance of torrents They are the travellers Who observe every culture and take part in them often They are transient yet sluggish time and again

This pain, my dear,  is perennial  Like waves in the ocean  You can't wait till I'm done  I can't either come to you before I'm done And we are in two alien worlds unconnected  Hence I am incomplete And I can never be myself without you Nor can you be yourself without me And the two incomplete selves in two opposite poles Struggle to put up with all agonies And this life to me, my dear, is a river sans its flow Where I'm on a brittle boat without my oars Here what I have with me is A saturated feel of emptiness Bleak and blurred At last what remains is  A bizarre state of nothingness

Every 'Why' has a 'Because' But most of them are not counted!

I've been imprisoned for being the king  Of the vast stretches of Serengeti A land where my clan reigned for eons Being a king was not at all easy You need to strain every nerve I did kill, I did eat; I didn't kill, I did starve I was an unruly lad With pride in head and pleasure in heart I ruled, I frolicked, I fought Sometimes I won, sometimes I lost Ah! Those were the days And then they came The intruders with greed in the eyes  And guns on the shoulders At first I didn't like them as I was a family man Who respected the privacy I thought they would become my prey And their metal didn't mangle my mettle Sooner I sussed, they were the predators My mettle melted before their metal And every wild beast surrendered to them And here I am Detained in an alien surrounding And sh…! A zoo this is so no grrr It was hard to live here at first Then I adjusted, later I adapted And now I acclimatized Here I have caretakers, doctors and visitors I have a diet plan; nutritious I mus...