That One Quake, That One Moment :-O

Bidding bye to my folks at home,

Isn't it my duty?

Yes, i know, i do, routine!

But this time, 'twas different!

 

The Seismic waves rippled across the building

Tremor danced on the floor

With my feet on them,

Now where else do i place them?

Unfortunate scribbles on the sheet,

Would the Economic Survey matter any more?

The broken heart flutters in shock, in distress, in diffidence....

 

Will you stop until i vent out my one last desire?

Will you wait till i decide upon placing daisies or tulips on my grave?

Will you tarry till i tell them?

Will you spare myself for them?

I fancied i would leave this world in an embellished coffin, but now,

Should i lay bare with those strangers

Or take leave with an empty womb,

An incomplete assignment and life half-wrecked!

 

The disheveled me, I wish, pictured not itself

on the pages of the dailies, tomorrow,

I prayed, futile though i felt, it really was,

For tomorrow is not yet born,

May no longer for me!

 

Death will come i know,

Dreams drown into the stream of death,

Stream that takes it to nowhere;

Yet i dreamt, that one moment,

My dream , i beseech thee, Lord,

Under the hat of bureaucracy,

Let my demise be!

 

RIP me once i am ready

Once i get rid of fear, the fear of death

Let me witness the dying fear in me before

The arrival of that one moment!

 

Assuming as God's will

Some power beyond everything

An atheist may not know

I may not have explained

That one Quake, that one moment, i wish i find not again!