Never
As I sat the serene waves were evocative of those pleasant days,
The setting sun made the myriad memories come alive,
The waves to and forth: encircling my legs like meanders asking questions in
this vast sea of life,
Embarrassed I had so long prevaricated about the meanders of life;
“Doesn’t life seem megalomaniac or is it worth living”?
Suddenly a scorpion bit me as if to say “Never” question the Divine.
Blood started oozing out: Red the color of peril,
I accepted the whole episode with alacrity;
A virtuous spell began to be evoked,
I lifted my feet and laughed as if to provoke ‘the Divine’,
In a moment all hopes and inspirations were reduced to fabulists,
My other feet drenched in water waiting to be free seemed like a hassock of
everyday nitty gritties,
A smile adorned my face and I said, “Never stop smiling even in the darkest of
dark”.
The pain in my feet was making me bellow my heart out;
A tear trickled and it too fell in the vast megalomaniac sea of life,
I walked back looking at my footprints in the sand that were jeered by the
seashells,
They said “Atleast we are not selfish like you!”
That led me to another question-“Why does everybody unleash a cannonade
criticism against his or her rivals?”
A soft wind blew to say –“Because they are not free”,
Then I realized how meek I was:”Never” had caught me which is the clutches of
society!!
I prayed kill that “Never” kill that “Never”!!!: let everyone be free,
A sense of exhilaration was induced in me,
The interregnum between by answers had all these years been filled with
that ‘Never’,
All that remained of my life’s wisdom was stubble: a stubble of ‘Never’,
Why are we taught to say ‘Never’;
I pray to ever (freedom) to come and remove this ‘never’.
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