Life Is Not Forever

                                                                             August 5,2016

Life is not forever!

By

Madhu Rajan

Life is not forever

We tend to forget

Though we see people 

Die right and left

Procrastinating now to later. 

Today, tomorrow, to day after. 

Next week, next month, next year.

Post promotion, post superannuation

It goes on and on thus

And we, the most evolved

Intelligent specie don’t

Realize a simple truth

Our time is not unlimited

Strange though it may seem

We don't have an eternity

To accomplish what we dream

 Every one comes to this world

With a return ticket in hand;

Return ticket with date,

   time column left blank.

It’s  not only that

Leave must we all

But leave at short notices

Or no notice at all

We ought to do deeds

That we wish done

Sooner than soonest

For we know not when

Our departure will be announced

And our names will get a prefix “Late”

Irrespective whether we departed

On time or before date!

Revised - The Eternal Show


January15, 2011

LIFE, AN ETERNAL SHOW
By Madhu Rajan

 

Life is so incredibly beautiful, absolutely awesome;

So unbelievably horrific, ugly and painful

Or it may be anywhere in between the two wide spectrums.

It simply depends on the angle you are looking at it from;

Like in a show you may get good or bad seats.

 

But the life’s show is so much more complex

Than that you have ever seen any where

Here in some inexplicable way

Every one is a part of this great ever unfolding play

Sitting on the best seats of orchestra

Or being somewhere on the fringes

And there are always some who perform on the center stage

Larger than life roles; larger than most rewards

 

The producer-director of this great show is great too

He runs such a big show with billions of characters

And props and innumerable settings and

Multitudes of other life forms thrown in;

There are any numbers of acts taking place at the same time

Which one you get to experience depends on your seat.

There are tragedies, there are comedies

Death, destruction, mayhem

Bravery, chivalry, kindness

Abundance of humor and pathos

And laughter and tears.

 

 

Players enter, play their parts

And leave,

Never to be seen again

Their places taken by new players

But unlike all other shows

There is never “the end”.

The show always goes on

Incredibly beautiful or unbelievably ugly n painful

or somewhere in between,

Depending on the seat you got!

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