AIR

Air can flow as storms or silent calm breeze
Agile as serpents, with or sans hissing
Ruffle the lovers' hair or it may uproot trees
Beneath which they were kissing
Move tunefully through pipes and drums
To birth lyrical dulcet music
Or ferry a virus - tiniest. but which numbs
And makes a healthy man sick.

It moved turbines and stars winked on earth
It flew kites of joy for those boys
Carried seeds with life, for new trees' birth
And man's ever communing voice
It summoned clouds; and lo, monsoons came;
It gave flight to soaring birds,
And to maniac man-the monkey mimicking them;
In herds and herds of foolish nerds

My feelings are like molecules of air
Invisible but so, still there
They help me grow and progress everywhere
And then for some others care
Those failures at art, caught in life's race
Galloping towards a futile demise
I pity the abundant emptiness of space
And of vacant minds likewise