Filial Love

All that I am, I owe it to you. I have no God other than you two.
You lived in a world where there were no nukes or nerds
You lived on simple rice and curds
You knew not about chromosomes x or y
but brought forth a son and heaved a sigh
You showered me with love and affection
Spared the rod without spoiling the child i must mention
I remember you mother, pledging gold from your ear
to pay my fees and make me an engineer.
Spartan living and noble thoughts
Love of poetry and literature.
Your life itself was an example to follow
Before which bookish knowledge sounds so hollow.
How can I ever repay your debt?
Not in this life I bet;
I have to be reborn again and again,
In every birth, you as my parents will remain.

Intimations of winter

Dry and scaly skin

Roughness all over the chin

Winter's setting in.

Elusive She

Why is it that happiness eludes me?
What sin have i committed to be deprived
Of the fruits everyone longs for; the chimera of
The sweet moments, the stuff dreams are made of
Trysts in moonlight, of Love's manysplendoured delights
Pain of separation and the stab of desertion
Reveries which a love starved youth engages in
Dreamy eyed as he sits in desolation at the
Appointed place at the time she is wont to come
Hours pass and days turn into months and years
Body withered and weather beaten
Yet no sign of her whose one touch can turn
This dead leaf into a verdant twig
the dreary grey into a pastoral green.
The sea will be calm and the sky azure,
My life from all fears secure.

But where, where is SHE?

PSYCHOPATH'S MIND

Danny Harold Rolling was executed at Starke, Florida on 25h October, by lethal injection at 6 pm and declared dead at 6.13 pm. He was Florida's most notorious serial killer having gunned down five students at Gainesville in 1990 on the Florida University campus.

He was aged 52 having been in prison for 16 years. As the injection was bing pumped into his veins he kep t chanting " none greater than Thee,oh Lord, none greater than Thee"
He never expressed regrets/sorrow for what he did or ask for forgiveness even from the Lord whose name he uttered with his foul mouth in his last moments. Did he think that this chant would absolve him, expiate for his sins ,if at all he considerd he had sinned? Strange are the minds of psychopaths. They have one larage tumour for a brain and ingots of lead for nerve ganglions. Is there some x-ray machiane that can scan and identify such people in our society, or are we doomed to live with these abominations in constant fear of life? In what ways do the fundamentalists, the terrorists differ from Rolling? In God's good world, why did He keep a place for these vermin? Only He can answer. Perhaps he himself does not know the answer.

DAVID STANDS ALONE

In Florence stands David
Millions of tourists with wads of dollars
But where is Goliath?