Alexander Raju Poems

What left with me of my father
Is his last smile, a funny one!
It flashes intermittently
Into the core of my tiresome life,
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THE TERMITES
The termites or the white ants,
Who're supposed to eat the dead,
Must be killed mercilessly,
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It's not just for fishing
That you go for fishing!

Your dire need to survive
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I hate those who look back,
Who feel proud of their past,
Who live in yesteryears
Being dissatisfied
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Funny is our democracy
That honours brute majority!
And nobody bothered about
The right of the individual
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Towards me a wheel-chair crawled slow
with the skeleton of a man,
the leftover of a noble life.
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After all these days of busy human life
Of hectic earnings and tiresome miseries
What's left on earth as ultimate profit,
In the final balance sheet of history?
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She was an old woman,
perhaps, in her ninety's,
with thousands of wrinkles,
on her ancient face,
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Warren Zevon, the rock singer,
Was diagnosed of incurable cancer,
Sang lastly, ‘Keep me in your heart! '
And tried to explore grief through art.
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By Alexander Raju

If death's inevitable, die at the right time,
While people retain you dear to their hearts;
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