When a Person becomes a Body
This body
Filled with life
Loving and living
Hopping and hoping
Singing and sighing
Laughing and lying
On the lap of the lover
Beaming with kisses
In moon lit nights.
A ware house of ifs and buts
Fusion of confusion
Do’s and don’ts
Ceased to exist
And suddenly
became a body
A multi-cellular factory
Used to be driven by oxygen
And a pump that does not work any more.
This body
Ready to become the units again
Carbon, oxygen
Nitrogen, phosphorous and hydrogen
What happened to the dreams?
The desires and malice
The search for the Nirvana
The position, the promotion
The corner office and the lady love
The SP 500 and the 18 holes
All dissolved with the last breath,
What am I then,
A transient wish
A soap bubble on its way up?
A flash of the strobe light
In the bottom of the ocean?
A fire fly in the new moon night?
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July21, 1999 |