And there was nothing like office in the dictionary of my mind; as I was overwhelmingly busy in composing poetry; engrossed in poetic fantasy and entirely
oblivious to the vagaries of this mercenary world.
47. I CARE A DAMN ABOUT THIS WORLD
When I was poor and begging on the streets with my arms stretched; they said that I didn’t have skill to earn money,
When I was fast asleep on the bed drowned in realms of exotic fantasy; they said that I was lazy and fit for nothing,
When I was walking at electric speeds through the lanes; they said that I a trifle too active; fidgeted about without any rhyme or reason,
When I was merrily eating breakfast; they said that I had a gargantuan appetite,
When I gallivanted mischievously on my bicycle; they said that I simply
couldn't afford a car,
When I recited stanzas from the Shakespeare without stuttering the slightest; they said that I had consumed steroids,
When I donated mammoth sums of money for the betterment of the orphaned; they said that I had ulterior motives behind my chivalrous pretence,
When I diligently took bath thrice a day; they said that I was wasting precious water,
When I smiled sympathetically towards the destitute women; they said that I had lecherous intents,
When I danced in ecstatic jubilation; they said that I was polluting the atmosphere with my horrendous tunes,
When I inadvertently killed mosquitoes hovering around my eardrum; they said that I had committed gruesome murder,
When I inevitably sneezed in a cloud of obnoxious smoke; they said that I contaminated the ambience with my spit,
When I looked at my watch from time to time; waiting anxiously for my wife; they said that I had maniacal tendencies,
When I blissfully read books on literature; they said that I was wasting and condemning precious time,
When I wrote volumes of poetry propagating the spirit of mankind; they said that I was a disdainful piece of burden on the surface of earth,
When I assiduously worked on the computer screen for hours on the trot; they said that I was thoroughly rebuking the pen,
When I boisterously swam in the ocean; they said that I was endangering the aquatic fish,
When I amicably patted my pet dog; they said that I had simply no sense of health and hygiene,
When I covered myself with a quilt to evade the freezing world; they said that I was a coward of the highest degree,
When I stared passionately at my beloved; they said that I had just been released
from the mental asylum,
When I sometimes spoke in innocent whispers; they said that I resembled a new
born child,
When I lit a candle to pray to god; they said that I had deliberately broken the enchantment of the night,
When I commenced my journey towards the 100th floor of the building in the escalator; they said that I had no legs of mine at all,
When I sketched the enamoring shapes of the valley with my rustic paints; they said that I didn’t posses the ability to write,
When I incessantly lay on the feet of my mother; they said that I was entirely oblivious to the vagaries of this world,
When I meticulously solved mind boggling puzzles of arithmetic; they said that I was very commercial minded,
When I sipped apple juice from the scintillating glass; they said that I stripped several others to satiate my hunger,
When I chewed my nails in raw nervousness; they said that I lacked all ethical values; belonged to the indigenous society,
When I cried vociferously; lamenting the loss of my beloved; they said that it simply a cover to sequester the fact that I had murdered her,
When I worked like a dog in office to achieve astronomical limits; they said that I was a workaholic completely disoriented from the spiritual world,
When I locked my house at night to guard my family against evil; they said that I lacked the virtue of being fearless,
When I fixed the tyre of my car after it had got punctured; they said that I looked like a mechanic,
When I shaved unruly strands of beard from my cheek at dawn; they said that I appeared like a shy girl,
When I hurled a volley of abuse at the thieves intimidating a priest; they said that I was ill-mannered and uncultured,
When I engulfed my forehead with a flabby cap in the peak of summer; they said that I was trying to hide my baldness,
When I went to the temple without wearing my shoes; they said that I didn't have the capacity to purchase one,
When I went to meditate blissfully in the heart of the jungle; they said that I had suddenly metamorphosed into an insane relic,
When I gulped pure and holistically radiant vegetable food; they said that I was trying to disrupt the eco-system,
When I spoke in the language prevalent in my country; they said that I profoundly castigated all other dialects,
When I enveloped my persona in a jet black shirt; they said that I had an aversion for impeccable white,
When I stood tall and domineering in the crowd; they said that I was being showing off and pretending to be bombastic,
When I clenched my teeth in supreme anger; they said that I was trying to display the color of my foreign toothpaste,
When I blew mystical whistles from my mouth; they said that I was trying to be cheeky with young maidens,
When I served milk to all the starved I encountered in the hutments; they said that I had blended poison in prolific quantities,
When I slept with my feet facing the opposite side of the church; they said that God resides everywhere,
When I expressed my philanthropic wish to donate blood; they said that the reason for my being so benign was because I had deadly aids,
When I transgressed barechested on the grass to relieve my overwhelming tension; they said that I suddenly become bankrupt,
When I procreated a battalion of children to continue the chapter of my existence; they said that I had indulged in licentious and sinful acts,
When I viewed images from the television at close quarters after my meals; they said that I was addicted to sleazy entertainment,
When I wore shimmering gemstones on my fingers to have an impact on my destiny; they said that I had furtively stolen them,
When I ploughed the soil onerously to sow food grains; they said that I was committing barbaric acts of brutalizing the soil,
When I passionately uttered I Love You with fire in my eyes; they said that I had memorized it several times from the contemporary textbooks,
No matter what I did; they always opposed me; even if I was irrefutably right and on the path to serve humanity; poking their noses ominously into my affairs; making my life worse than the island of hell every minute; and that's when I said to the Almighty
Lord; that I cared a damn about this world
48. YOU COULDNT BUY
You could purchase pair of teeth; but you couldn’t buy their scintillating shine,
You could purchase a handsome tiger; but you couldn’t buy his thunderous growl,
You could purchase a glamorous rose; but you couldn’t buy its mesmerizing redolence,
You could purchase the entire valley; but you couldn’t buy its unfathomable depth,
You could purchase a mammoth slab of ice; but you couldn’t buy its frozen coolness,
You could purchase sprawling territories of sand; but you couldn’t buy their sweltering heat,
You could purchase a cluster of opalescent striped nightingales; but you couldn’t
buy their enchanting voice,
You could purchase boundless meadows of grass; but you couldn’t buy the coat of
dew drops glistening on their surface,
You could purchase the sapphire blue dolphin; but you couldn’t buy its rollicking leap,
You could purchase dexterously sculptured pa
intings; but you couldn’t buy the artists mind,
You could purchase the colossal lake; but you couldn’t buy the fish proliferating inside; every unleashing second,
You could purchase a pair of eyes from the eye bank; but you couldn’t buy their emphatic rays,
You could purchase knotted fingers; but you couldn’t buy the things they wrote,
You could purchase a sparkling jewel; but you couldn’t buy the impact that it had on your destiny,
You could purchase a swanky car; but you couldn’t buy the speeds at which it traversed,
You could purchase a slave; but you couldn’t buy the uninhibited freedom of his
thoughts,
You could purchase a woman; but you couldn’t buy the love residing deep in her
conscience,
You could purchase an idol of God; but you couldn’t buy the omnipotent power
it was capable of executing,
And you could purchase a heart; but you simply couldn’t buy its violently palpitating beats; the overwhelming tenacity it had to grant new life.
49. WHO COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED
Who could have ever imagined that the flower so redolent and fresh in the morning; would one day collapse towards the ground in a shriveled heap?
Who could have ever imagined that the grass so green and lush in bustling autumn; would resemble a ghastly brown in the middle of inclement winter?
Who could have ever imagined that the waves swirling vivaciously in the heart of the ocean; would be frigid streams of water as they reached the silver shorelines?
Who could have ever imagined that the poignant candle flames illuminating the atmosphere; would eventually die a cowardly death with the slightest of breeze?
Who could have ever imagined that the succulent fruit of raspberry; would gruesomely rot and decay in an ambience of dead straw?
Who could have ever imagined that the immaculate and crisp fabric of shirt in the morning; would develop a plethora of blotches after undergoing the tyranny of the day?
Who could have ever imagined that the profoundly scintillating chain of white silver; would one day evolve peels of deplorable rust?
Who could have ever imagined that the milk so revitalizing and tingling; would transit into bitter cream; after a few hours of exposure in stringent light?
Who could have ever imagined that the formidable fortress constructed of exquisite quality iron and mortar; would one day lie blended with the dust; after undergoing the aftermath of a devastating earthquake?
Who could have ever imagined that the cluster of teeth so scintillating and white at dawn; would transit their demeanor into a pallid yellow after consuming the first meal of the day?
Who could have ever imagined that the crystalline gurgling stream cascading down mountain slopes in the peak of monsoon; would be a mere trickle of its original self in acerbic heat of summer?
Who could have ever imagined that crimson blood circulating rampantly through the veins; would metamorphose itself into a colorless liquid; when struck with deadly cancer?
Who could have ever imagined that the appetizing slice of toast dipped in mesmerizing marmalade; would transform into a lackluster chunk of bread; after marathon time of proximity with the mosquitoes?
Who could have ever imagined that the jungle looking so enchanting in daylight; would be a ghastly black soon after stars appeared in the firmament of sky?
Who could have ever imagined that the luxury sedan embodied with glistening interiors and lightening speeds; would be deserted on the solitary pavement; squelched to threadbare junk after the gruesome accident?
Who could have ever imagined that the eyes so exuberant and lively in the morning; would become overwhelmingly dreary and blurred; as nightfall strangulated the light in entirety?
Who could have ever imagined that stupendously melodious tunes of music emanating from the throat; would after a while become discordantly appalling when the vocal chords were exhausted?
Who could have ever imagined that sparkling and transparent patches of sky; would wholesomely lose their entity; after being inundated with ominous clouds; suddenly without any sort of prior notice?
And who could have ever imagined that man so robust and bustling in youthful fervor; would one day lie buried in his corpse; waiting for the Creator to recreate
him again?
50. REPLACEMENTS
If bricks in the edifice were replaced by inflated balloons,
The colossal structure would tumble down on earth; like a pack of soft plastic cards.
If acerbic blades of the ceiling fan were; replaced with satiny Persian cloth,
I would be able to kiss the contraption; even when revolving at full speeds.
If coarse cloth of jagged trouser; was replaced with succulent candy floss,
There would be a battalion of red ant crawling up; devouring the sumptuous meal.
If a cluster of calcium teeth; were replaced by intricate fillings of wrought iron,
The individual would have the prowess to chew the hardest of stone; yet not be able to smile.
If the gargantuan body of saline ocean; was replaced by ponds of still water,
There would be no whales swimming; with frothy waves disappearing into oblivion.
If salubrious juice of jaggery; was replaced by chemical sugar,
A myriad of bowels would expurgate themselves; relinquishing taste.
If shards of obdurate crystal glass; were replaced by gelatine paper,
There would be a chain of robberies committed all day; with the burglars sleeping sedately throughout the night.
If every iota of soil on ground; was replaced by granules of exquisite silver,
There would be no penurious existing on earth; with all green foliage ceasing to grow.
If the metal wings of aircraft; were replaced by pure cotton,
The plane would acrobatically nosedive towards the ground; assassinating slim hopes of survival.
If entwined bones of body; were replaced by plum juice,
The body would inevitably collapse on the ground; diminishing all hopes of plausible autopsy.
And if humans on the globe; were replaced by mechanized robots,
A plethora of tasks would be executed to meticulous perfection,
And the most versatile organism; would fatally succumb without learning the art of love.
The End .
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