Hide and Seek - Part 3 - Rhyming & Non Rhyming Poems by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

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25. COLD SODA DRINK

 

The water was icily cold,

colored to sinister reptile brown,

coated with oxygen and aroma,

with a tinge of sweetened flavour,

and specific gravity more than one,

refrigerated in automatic mechanized plants,

passing through innumerable check monitors,

dictating strict conditions of health and hygiene,

an amalgamate of water and black vapour,

aerated to add spice to taste,

an artificial alternative of quenching thirst,

soaring to dizzy heights in the blazing sun,

a symbol of universal sophistication,

an essential ingredient for all occasions,'

a genuine appetizer for millions of bowels,

identical to alcohol before consumption,

an omnipresent commodity in shopping centers,

stone offices and cinema halls,.

spreading waves of unanimous addiction,

bottled at source in hexa inch tin metal,

with emblems of pepsi, coke, fanta, sprite...etc,

producing frothy gas when shaken,

tingling sensations when consumed,

euphoric shouts when sighted in sweat,

it doesn’t take a specialist to realize,

that i am describing a cold soda drink