Hide and Seek - Part 6 - Rhyming & Non Rhyming Poems by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

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10. QUESTIONS

 

I asked the road; the things that perturbed her the most,

She replied saying; that she was mutilated every unleashing minute,

By the juggernaut of trucks; and cloud showers of swollen rain.

 

I asked a cluster of fish in the monsoon river; about the ultimate fantasy of their lives,

The answer that followed was studded with arduous lines of brevity,

As they unanimously dreamt of swimming in stormy waves of the ocean.

 

I asked the domestic lizard to narrate its tale of woes,

It didn’t ponder even for a fraction of a second; curtly saying that it was a paucity of succulent insect that kept her starved these days.

 

I asked the bleary eyed moon to impassively blurt out its agony,

The celestial figure in the cosmos retorted with a volley of eloquent expletives,

Blaming a fleet of monstrous spaceships; pilfering its exquisite decorum.

 

I asked the merrily swaying trees; to recount the expeditions of the blistering day,

They retaliated with traumatic screams; with white blood trickling down their entirety,

Rebuking the farmer; who had sliced them down for his daily fodder.

 

I asked stray dogs in the street about their conditions of blissful health,

They made gallant mockery of my question barking; we aren’t fastidious about food;

All we need is a solitary place to sleep.

 

I then questioned my tangible heart to disclose its candid feelings,

There were mystical vibrations which shook my entire silhouette,

Beads of cold sweat camouflaged my shock of black hair,

As it responded to my query saying; that it wanted to imprison forever,

Possess for times immemorial the holistic form it loved on this earth.