Life = Death - volume 7 - Poems on Life , Death

by Nikhil Parekh

  You may have drunk cartons full of mineral water; quenching your thirst under the scorching sun of midday,

  But what about those people reeling under severe drought; whose wells you had emptied to tingle the food in your stomach?

  You may have lived for a 100 years; surviving on the most conventional of medicine and steroids,

  But what about those innocent whom you had slaved; in order to clean every iota of dirt you spat on this earth?

  And you may have loved; imprisoning every girl you set your eyes on with the

  power of your wealth,

  But what about all those billion lives you had assassinated; in order to satisfy

  each desire of yours?

 

 

  13. BEARDED 

  I didn’t need a pair of scissors; glistening wildly in yellow Sunlight,

  I didn’t need a knife; protruding gallantly from the slender handle,

  I didn’t need a hostile blade; with edges as sharp as a savage vulture,

  I didn’t need after shave cologne; emanating a scent more stupendous than the rose,

  I didn’t need a pungent slab of aluminum; having its surface as smooth as white ice,

  I didn’t need a soft sponge; with its body profusely dipped in tingling antiseptic,

  I didn’t need tablets of colored soap; evolving a bath of bubbles after vigorous scrubbing,

  I didn’t need high pressured foam; diffusing into a stream of spicy froth the instant I compressed it,

  I didn’t need long spools of cotton; triangular heaps of bandages to drape across my wounds,

  I didn’t need shimmering tweezers of pure steel; to scrupulously pluck my hair,

  I didn’t need sleazy colored dye; with its shade resembling rotten vegetables decaying in the dark,

  I didn’t need a blow dryer; ejecting out tones of hot air at whirlwind speeds,

  I didn’t need a barrel of vanity powder; to spuriously illuminate the contours of my face,

  I didn’t need a bowl of moisturizing cream; to incessantly massage each pore of my skin,

  I didn’t need sizzling face pads; to caress the breath flowing harmoniously out of my nose,

  I didn’t need a mirror; to admire my reflection for marathon hours in the

  scintillating glass incorporated within,

  I didn’t even need to waste a single second more in the morning; reaching the office well before the boss came in,

  And the strange thing was; that even if someone donated all the above contraptions to me completely free; I still would blatantly reject them,

  By now you must be at the edge of your seats to know the secret of my existence; well the answer to this is more simpler than your voice; as I didn’t have even

  the slightest of free space on my cheeks; or to put it more succinctly I was bearded

 

 

  14. A SINGLE DEVIL 

  A single rotten apple with flies feasting on its succulent body; decays the entire ensemble of robust apples,

  A single stain of black dye sprawling rampantly; spoils the beauty of the entire white fabric,

  A single hole in its heavy and metallic body; uncouthly drowns the entire ship,

  A single stream of venom oozing gently; contaminates the entire river of impeccable milk,

  A single bit of sewage smelling fetidly; annihilates the beauty of the entire garden laden with blossoming petals,

  A single virus in the blood stream; metamorphoses the individual from rubicund and healthy to insane and sick,

  A single particle of dandruff loitering in animosity; pollutes the entire conglomerate of lustrous and shining hair,

  A single nail overgrown and dirty; imperils the look of the entire palm embossed with mystical lines,

  A single dark cloud in the cosmos; adulterates the entire sky which is blue and

  crystal clear,

  A single town clock running late; delays the life of the entire city; with most of the people yawning as the sun crept up in brilliant afternoon,

  A single loophole in the house; entices the entire team of burglars to maraud at will; pilfer stealthily through closed doors at night,

  A single crack in the bone; foments the entire leg to walk in contorted pain; limp across the road for mercy,

  A single spark of white electricity; electrocutes the entire family; triggering the house to explode in volatile fury,

  A single crease in the crisp shirt; debases the entire demeanor which was otherwise quite sparkling and flawless,

  A single snore thunderously emanating; breaks the silence of tranquil and

  blissful sleep,

  A single shiver down the petrified spine; engenders the snake to pierce its lethal fangs and bite,

  A single stroke of stringent red; disturbs the harmony of the otherwise splendid marksheet,

  A single lie spoken; condemns a person beyond all anecdotes of his honesty,

  And a single devil in the mind; not only ruins all the sanctity previously existing; but also finishes a person in mind, body and eternal soul.

 

  15. ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING 

  All I want is a chain of thick gold adorning my neck,

  All I want is a stream of white champagne to incessantly titillate my throat,

  All I want is a swanky car that can transport me long distance, at the mere caress of a button,

  All I want is a book of spell binding fairy tales, which flood my mind with intrigue and enigma,

  All I want is a castle with towering walls, carved all over in delectable sandstone,

  All I want is an appetizing meal of vegetable cherry, which makes me slaver till my last drop of saliva is exhausted,

  All I want is a silken sheet of floss, draping my body in entirety,

 

  All I want is golden globules of sweat, tingling me exotically as the cascaded down my nape,

  All I want is swirling waves of the ocean, splashing their raw salt on my lips as they struck,

  All I want is an ensemble of voluptuous reptile, lingering loosely from my scalp,

  All I want is silver chained wrist watch, its dainty twinkling resonating in my ears all day long,

  All I want is the rubicund apple sprouting from the tip of Mount Everest, bite through its body with gusty fervor,

  All I want is a sparkling pillow impregnated with white pearls, the mysticism in their reflection drowning me into their splendor,

  All I want is a candle with a perpetual glow, its resplendent radiance illuminating my ghastly night,

  All I want is a dream that never ended, took me on a wild journey of waterfalls and snow clad penguins,

  All I want is a pot-bellied tortoise, snuggling close to my heart when I was tense,

  All I want is an ivory broomstick, which could fly me high and handsome towards blazing portions of the sky,

  All I want is sizzling soup of spicy coriander, which caused tears of satisfaction to roll down my cheeks in tandem,

  All I want is a robust pigeon perched languidly on the rooftop; fluttering its wings to produce delectable draughts of air,

  All I want is immaculate milk; bombastic chunks of cream floating in a silver bowl,

  All I want is peanut butter; with its dazzling slices of yellow tingling the most remotest bud of my taste,

  All I want is a ravishing watermelon; titillating my tongue beyond the point of no control,

  All I want is long sheets of flawless paper; to embed its surface with a million lines of poetry,

  All I want is a mind functioning unrelentingly; fantasizing even while in deep sleep,

  All I want is a dolphin diving handsomely in the pool; with its glistening fins splashing across my face; sprinkling it with imprisoned droplets of water,

  All I want is a multi-legged octopus; spreading its tentacles the instant I gently tapped it,

  All I want is a snake leather whip; emanating exotic noises as I dared to slash the warm air
with it,

  All I want is a dawn encompassing me with its voluptuous coolness; refraining to develop into the hostile day,

  All I want is a glass full of dewdrops; to be placed beside my morning plate of bread and breakfast,

  All I want is a cat with furry skin; purring across my chest in my times of distress,

  All I want is a hunch-backed camel gazing at me amicably; flooding my nostrils with its natural scent,

  All I want is a gargantuan brass bell; punctuating the atmosphere with stringent tunes,

  All I want is a trouser embossed with golden buttons; as long as the terrain of the Himalayas,

  All I want is a crystal globe; that depicted my future as every second unleashed into a wholesome minute,

  All I want is a bottle replete with inebriating rum; which overflowed even after I had consumed the last bit of it,

  All I want is a road which transited me without walking the slightest; to the place where the Sun met the land,

  All I want is a field sprawling over infinite hectares of land; in which there grew only rotund buds of mushroom,

  All I want is a word that was the longest; and which didn't exist in the

  most contemporary of dictionary,

  All I want is a dungeon stashed with golden biscuits; with their shine tearing apart all premonitions of poverty and disgrace,

  All I want is an academic degree of the highest pedigree and status; without even slogging it a single hour in the day,

  All I want is a necklace sewn with a myriad of pearls; attached to innumerable oysters live and breathing alive,

  All I want is eyes with lids of the most toughest of steel; ensuring that I didn’t become blind even in an atmosphere swirling with pugnacious thorns,

  All I want is a bohemian hand; which could snap a mountain of iron bricks in a

  single stroke,

  All I want is a scintillating telephone; on which I could converse for hours without

  it being actually connected,

  All I want is an enigmatic herb; which could keep me eternally young and with brilliant black hair even after I crossed 100,

  All I want is a spring; which kept on bouncing and rebounding; thereby making me uncontrollably laugh,

  All I want is cocoons of golden brown potatoes; roasted delectably over in

  crackling fires,

  All I want is clusters of red cherries; with handsome porcupines crawling nimbly on their surface,

  All I want is silver crested stars of the cosmos; to profoundly illuminate my

  every night,

  All I want is pinnacle of every mountain existing; to rest in meek submission on my worktable desktop,

  All I want is a wild elephant; which swishes tones of water merrily all around with its trunk,

  All I want is a frozen slice of bread; that delectably melts in my mouth stimulating me profoundly all throughout the day,

  All I want is a rainbow dissipated into infinite colors; lingering mystically in my eyeball,

  All I want is a liquid that makes me completely invisible; imparts me with the power to trespass with supreme ease; even into the house of the president,

  All I want is a bird that perches compassionately on my shoulders; drifts me into a blissful slumber rhyming harmoniously in my ears,

  All I want is an army of mosquitoes bereft of venom; tingling each pore of my skin; with every bite of theirs,

  All I want is a shirt sewn with glittering diamonds; which I used as a substitute for my mirror; whenever I felt the urge to sight my reflection,

  All I want is a room so obsolete and remote; that I could distinctly hear even the sound of my breath,

  All I want is a ring embedded with a magical stone; that turned my fortunes dramatically; a few hours after wearing it,

  All I want is a whale fish as tall as the sky; which would let me marvel each part of its glistening body; feel its royal snout with my bare fingers,

  All I want is a pool full of steaming water; with droplets of cascading wine revitalizing each patch of my dead skin,

  All I want is an echo reverberating deafeningly through the valley; that reached out to every entity; sprawled across different quarters of the globe,

  All I want is a hive of discordantly buzzing humming bees; oozing sweet nectar; slowly caressing my lips on their periphery as it fell,

  All I want is a slogan; that encapsulates all sentences ever penned down in this world,

  All I want is a key; that decodes with supreme ease through the most impregnable of lock,

  All I want is a solvent; that makes me wholesomely invisible the instant I sprinkle it on my skin,

  All I want is teeth of obdurate steel; that can crack the most hardest of nut,

  All I want is a brimming cup of revitalizing tea; that incorrigibly refrains to get cold; even when I neglect it for days on the trot,

  All I want is a plane; that flies on pure spit and water; so that each drop of my saliva is gainfully utilized,

  All I want is a gun; that shoots boundless bullets of wild raspberry; the instant I pressed the trigger,

  All I want is a greeting card; that sings mesmerizing rhymes and stares into my eyes for real,

  All I want is strawberry cake; as long in length as the Himalayas,

  All I want is a ball that bounces to the 100th floor; after I nimbly threw it on the ground,

  All I want is moustache; which sparkled better than diamonds in day; had more hair in it than my scalp,

  All I want is dwelling; that doesn’t budge even an inch; even after the mightiest of earthquake; the most tumultuous of bombardment,

  All I want is a magic wand; which metamorphoses all chunks of decaying sewage into glittering gold,

  All I want is an abuse; that single handedly replicated all evil loitering in this world,

  All I want is a ship; that doesn’t topple even when attacked by a battalion of hostile sharks,

  All I want is robot; that comprehends each desire of mine; without even me uttering a single word,

  All I want is passionate fires; which keep circulating inexorably in my blood; even after I became abysmally old,

  All I want is a pen; which kept engendering me to write; with the ink in its body augmenting; with each verse of mine,

  All I want is tongue; that kept resonating in my mouth; even while in deep sleep,

 

  All I want is ears; which could detect the most inconspicuous of sound; sitting even a million kilometers away from the point where the pin actually dropped,

  All I want is a ghost; whom only I could sight at night; hoisting me high and handsome in the cosmos; near my dead ancestors,

  All I want is caverns deep down the ocean; with frozen icicles suspended from their roof; voraciously tickling the last breath of mine,

  All I want is a blueprint; which can decode the most baffling enigmas of life,

  All I want is a field replete with fresh cowdung; collected from all species of animals wandering on this globe,

  All I want is a rope; which caught me my prey; as I languidly tossed it in free air,

  All I want is a tomato as gargantuan as the dinosaur; which ripped apart into infinite pieces of juice; the moment I sat on it,

  All I want is a chair; that transported me right into the realms of paradise; the instant I sat on it,

  All I want is a mischievous child; audaciously carrying on the chapter of my existence,

  All I want is a girl; who could love me more than myself; make me feel every unfurling second that I was indeed alive,

  All I want is true love; bask in its immortal glory for decades immemorial,