The Time of Your Life

One day we will find ourselves between the cross hair of sacred and sin,
Looking back on our lives full of joy, or just an empty din.
We would have walked miles, hand in hand, with our friends,
Wondering if it would have been different, if we would have trusted them.

Some will smile and some will weep,
Some will forever with regret sleep,
Asking themselves if they were really alive,
Or just died everyday hoping to live.

There will come a time, when the judgment will be passed,
With morality and culture, duly sentenced to be thrashed,
For there is no greater sin, than to just do what you feel,
If offends the Gods, because you don't want to kneel.

Days will pass when we question our love, our family, and innermost belief,
We drown in the ocean of betrayal, break the illusion as we hit the reef.
Then we will emerge, cleansed of expectations,
To build a new world, without the sorrow of generations.
We will watch the bird fly, and the apple fall again,
Start a new theory, build a new wishing well.

Such have been the days and such will be the days to come,
Where you give up all you were, pick up who you are, and smile at who you are to become!

Just to Play

I do not remember the day I was born,

Like most of you, I just remember being warm,

Next to my mother and her fur,

A new life and joy to her.

Then I think you hand a fantasy,

To have me with you, because it was fancy.

They took me away when I was just two months old,

Crying and scared, away from her fur,

I was sold to you, apparently, you were better than her.

I do not deny you pamper me well,

But only when you want to,

When the the clock of life is not ringing its bell,

When it is convenient in your knell.

I am supposed to comfort you when you get lonely,

Just the way I feel without my parents’ company,

And I just expect the same from you,

Foolish me! You only play with me when you want to.

All other times, I should just sit and admire,

Your undying thirst for a worldly desire.

It makes you lonelier, and the more you need me,

For I am your best friend, whether or not I want to be!

You chain and discipline me, I should behave the way you want,

A soldier in your army, obeying your command and what not.

Have you ever wondered if you were taken away;

From your mother – just to play!

Then never given back, because I enjoy being with you,

A toy, a status, a pseudo idea in protecting and loving you.

Have you ever thought when you come home;

I have been lonely,

Dying to be warm with my mom and dad,

But you are tired and I should understand,

Be happy with the left over food you had.

Do not pretend you love me,

It is an insult to love,

To take away a two-month old baby,

Someone’s new born,

Then treat them the way you wish; at your sole pleasure,

And leave them on the street, if you wanted something better.

I hope you don’t ever have to live without your parents,

But I am a dog and who cares about my feelings,

You are human and get to play with someone’s life,

I am a dog, and that ends the matter!

I Wonder...

When our lives are shaped, not by who we are, but should be.
When corporations make our dreams limitless,
And the means to achieve them limited.
When the meaning of conversation has just become a text,
I wonder if we have progressed.

When soldiers die in the name of patriotism; 
Victims of personal ambition, disguised as the political acts of a nation.
A little like Caesar for the people of Rome,
I wonder if have we given democracy or secured dictatorship at home.

When citizens are spied on in the interest of national security,
And killed in the name of religion.
Where history is modified to justify genocide,
And children are bombed to wipe out terror,
I wonder why God brought us here.

When relationships are calculated,
And business is about relationships.
I wonder what is success,
A true sense of achievement.
Where intelligence alone is not enough and we seek more,
A trip to Mars and space cars,
When we can't even put the real criminals behind bars,
We want life on a new planet; a new hell beyond the stars.

When a tragedy is just a statistic,
Our false sense of pride,
In a fake donation list.
When love is an emoticon,
Thrown away at a different song.
When our sadness is filtered by apps,
And happiness fails to relapse.
When we are so busy competing for a destination,
We forget the journey,
And just wait for the station.

Where the freedom to be yourself is so despised,
That we wear slave uniforms,
And celebrate adult franchise.
Where the oceans are wet with cries from within,
Stop spilling in the water, it's choking them thin.

When the media is just a pawn,
Bought and sold before each dawn.
I wonder what you hear is all the news,
Or just propaganda in their views.

Where trees are cut to make our homes,
Much like the women raped to satisfy hormones,
I wonder if this is all we got,
Humanity, thy name we forgot!

Freedom

It has been some time now,

Since it first flew,

White wings, spread out against the blue sky,

Freedom beyond, the chains broken.

It is difficult to understand,

Why one would take to a cage?

When it could fly free.

Roam the world none have ever seen,

Yet it chose four corners,

A sense of comfort?

Or the idea of a home?

But only humans like corners,

The birds care about the warmth,

Not the location or shape.

It chose chains every time the door was open,

Teaching me, that freedom too was not black and white,

That freedom too, was just another perspective.

Lying low, mute to its true calling,

It chose what others value little.

But then again, the others were human,

Caged in the idea of their freedom,

Slave to their religion, technology and wants.

They often wondered why it never flew,

Became what it was supposed to,

Did someone ruin its younger years?

Or did it realize what the world holds beyond?

It guarded within the spirit of free air,

The same free spirit the humans yearn for,

A spirit unconstrained by money and possessions,

A spirit wild and carefree.

Is it possible it knew why the air hurt?

And that the promise was just an illusion

Or did it know that flying to nowhere is not always a destination.

Yet now, it decided to fly.

What changed? The wisdom redefined,

Or the innocence finally lost?

It tried to become what humans thought it was,

A bird born to scale the sky,

But it did not think it couldn’t,

The day it needed to.

Could it really be, that it became human?

Climbing, when it could fly,

Walking, when it could glide,

Full of desires, yet in the same place.

The freedom hasn’t changed,

The cage still the same,

It wants to scale the sky once more,

Chase the human dreams,

But like they get to know,

The bird too has realized,

It has been years now, since it first flew,

May be for the last time.