Friday, September 23, 2005

Life: A cruel Conundrum

Blasts at home, hurricanes away from home

Thousands stranded, locked up in a dome

Nature’s fury matching raging human syndrome

Leaving innocents like a dog without a bone.

Clicking away at the women and children who bleed

And selling them to magazines and TV to feed

Is this a punishment for many a wrong deed?

Repercussions for all the evil that we seed.

Schism in religion, a country almost Balkanized

A few bad men, a complete race ostracized

Innocent massacred and the silent traumatized

Is this how GOD wanted us to be characterized?

Mindless looting and unending corruption

Right from the start of democracy’s inception

‘We the people’ is a manifested deception

The future beholds just the road to perdition.

Reams of work on righteousness and wisdom

Just seems a a waste of time and path to boredom

What next after leading your life in Sodom

It makes death an aperture to freedom.

Yesterday’s pains, today is awry

Fooled by a charade, it’s not worth a try

Incessant sycophancy, you wonder why

Life is cruel son; you can’t help but sigh.


-Balls

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome, Balls. Keep it up!

"It makes death an aperture to freedom" was what I liked best!

Anonymous said...

really beautiful ..

Anonymous said...

Awesome Bala !!! nice work ....

Anonymous said...

awesome ... u can easily be next Met lyricist or at least Flavor Flav's :-) ... on a serious note ... really well put ... life's truly a bitch

Anonymous said...

Who the F**k cares abt Met when Falvor Flav offers me to write for him!!! Life wont be a bitch if i start working with the GOD of Time :-))

Anonymous said...

another advantage of working with the GOD of time is with HIM not around u can always fool around with the GODDESS Brigitte Nielsen

Anonymous said...

Last I heard from the 'Viking' God himself is that they are heading for splitsville.

Anonymous said...

This poem was thought off when Balls was on his usual morning walk with his best friend Goli with walking canes in their hand.
Jokes apart..awesome effort Balls..well done.
Is this a punishment for many a wrong deed? Repercussions for all the evil that we seed
So very true

Anonymous said...

Summed up all the shit that's happening in today's world really well.

"Road to perdition" it is indeed !

Anonymous said...

Well written. You sound seriously disturbed by problems across the world all of a sudden. I believe they have been worse natural hazards/accidents than those faced this year and there will be worse calamities in the future. Every year there is a calamity of some sort. Things are never at peace. Any such calamity proves that the fittest will survive. The blunt truth is that a disaster or calamity fuels development.

Anonymous said...

Thank you savita for the enlightening comment. Yes there may have been worse disasters, and yes there may well be more. But the poem was very well written, and the idea probably came at a moment's inspiration. Don't knock it. Writing about one's thoughts and emotions is not an easy task, putting them down in poetry is even harder.


Side note, great work balls, unexpected format i.e. as a poem, lots of references. Gloomy, but tasteful.


laterz

Abhi picture baaki hai mere dost !

Freaks Inc.. Bengaluru.. 15 years 2 months and 8 days later.. Agenda for the meeting: Day 1 1. Paying our respects to the beginning of time ...