The Decadal Mark
The penultimate decadal chronicle so very exciting
The twentieth century wrote through the eighties
My young mind marveled at how the pages were turning
Frayed memory still preserves them as a living treatise
Of times underscoring the arrival of the IT wave in a swing
Changed our lives morphing knowledge into digital entities
The world started to shrink, caught in the web of internet
Cell phones unclogged the impeded lines of communication
As with the computers our lives began to slowly relate
Artificial intelligence emerged from the state of incubation
The music of ABBA enthralled me from the Swedish shore
While entrenched political scenario in India began to change
Building foundation of market economy tried never before
To set the country on growth path with reforms wide range
As the crumbling communism ended the age-old cold war
And the Berlin wall tumbled forging the great unification
The precepts of climate change became increasingly clear
An aberration waited for the 20 first century for attention.
Like all other decades the eighties hurriedly passed me by
They made an indelible mark in my mind I don’t know why.
November 12, 2018
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2018
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