the afflictions of a beast

The afflictions of a beast
“Grr!” The petite herbivore elopes my fangs,
I look in dismay over the fields,
Awaiting another attack,
Hiding amidst the tall grass,
The dancing being pulls itself,
And makes its way into my trap,
I look ahead and watch its shadow,
Make my fangs kiss its claws,
The glob of spit drawing a globe on the ground,
The poor “beguiled and seized”,
Stands across my “ravenous trap “
I sprint into its naïve spirit,
Claw and fangs crushed on its neck,
It bleeds and spurts a “brook of blood”
As I devour into its pitiable corpse ,
The grave is dug in my belly,
Its soul rests with the wilderness dust…
The trees hail my audacious hunt,
“Obligated!” They provide me shelter from the sun,
Siesta seeps into my blood,
The crashing sounds of an unwelcome visitor alter my rest,
I seek a refuge under another chest,
The brawl of an elephant shifts my gaze,
I stare into the wilderness under siege,
A voracious fang hits my stripes filled torso,
A blinded hand ‘playing death’,
I look around for answers and the assailant,
As my sight goes blinded and my heart halts its bump,
I see the singing birds, weeping my end,
The trees and the herbivore singing an elegy,
An upheaval beast passes my gaze,
Looks at me and smiles in rage,
I thought “I was the beast with the apex greed”
The beast under my gaze held me wrong,
My existence depended on my butchery,
This beast lived to butcher a million ways….
I did nt know an iron slab could end my hunt,
I did nt know my presence was to him ,
Like the herbivore was to me……………………………………………………………

The audacity of youth is its clout to rip the norms and carve a new beginning for generations to brood and change. Change has always been synonymous to the youth, over the years the most malevolent leaders succumbed to the power of change. We try to relate change and revolution, revolution ensues where change begins, there were kings, there were emperors and then there were dictators, who made the path to change much more contentious. Some tried to conquer the world, others tried to fight without picking a weapon. Change has always been a part of basic human retaliation and human foreboding. When Barack Obama stood on that POW (power of the world) podium saying “yes we can” he meant yes “change can”. Over the ages one sentiment which has always flouted across the bounds of religions, languages, geography and wars has been the propensity of the human race to accept and live with the change. Change does not just crib over the past that sprouted it out; it takes out a leaf from the past and signals the future to ponder over its birth. The great king of SUSI once said “I don’t see any change in the world, the world has not change, it’s the perspective of change that has changed”. If u r wondering who the great king of SUSI is, wondering will only bring him glory and a piece of our psyche. Stop wondering. When I was a kid , I had a fascination for those kinky small cars, the glossy stickers, double Decker compass box and the juvenile wonders of the world, it bowed to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs with the mature psyche( ironical ). Change does not necessarily bring the desired results every time, but it does increase the probability of the desired result. When I bowed to alcohol and its co cousins, it was nt change that played the anchor, it was my craving to play GOD with the change which eventually triumphed. “Playing GOD” this has always been the contours of every undesired change and every unsteady result. The revolutionaries of our independence preferred this, but it was the far more resilient and “matter-of-fact ways of the mind folks” who stood the ground till the very end and increased the proximity of independence in each stance. The folks who tried to play god fell on their nose and fell because of an emphatic lure towards unilateral change, an exercise not for a better hope, but an omnipotent yearning for notice of the masses, for the self fulfillment.

When the historical decriminalizing homo sexuality was passed, the suave said “it was one of the supreme human rights acts ever to pass thru the Indian judiciary”, and the layman in his indignant and ignorant tone said, “kya malum,dimag ghum gaya hain” , this law does not provide an assurance for a better future or an inevitable past, it just seeped thru the age old cliché s , not the uncanny sordid change, but a far more tranquil and fore thought alteration in the larger interest . Change can never have the power to rationalize and provide the renaissance without being orchestrated and festooned with the might of human judgment and perseverance. The accord that comes with every changing generation is to appraise the past and dismiss its demons after realizing its wrath, which is when the desired results appease. Galileo said the earth is round and not flat as was believed and preached by the church, he was granted death. Had he said this fact with a lot more manipulation and without mocking the traditional belief, probably history would not have been the same. No one likes to be challenged downright on the face, and it becomes shoddier when it is an institution enjoying trust and conviction of millions. The dilemma with abrupt change is that it does nt fill enough space of the shoes which has been vacated by the past. The past has to be clean like a snow to accept this fortnight twist but bequeathing a snow clean past is like finding a clean pebble which has nt been touched by flow of the river. A lot of wars , catastrophes and civil unrest could have been avoided if they had realized the magnitude of this thought . Let’s just put it in the right perspective, Gregory davit Roberts in his book shantaram said “a lot of things in this world have become worse because someone tried to change it”, change is indubitably mandatory, as mandatory as civilization and wars sometimes are, but it should never be at the cost of an erratically designed future. Faith Baldwin once said “time is a dressmaker specializing in alteration”, so let us leave it partly to time and partly to our sense to elucidate the results for a better society and ideally a better world.