A Virtual Eden Poem by Vidya Pandarinath

Wheels, engines, wings and the rocket

Have dragged Life across Time and Space

The gap is rendered well within the enclosure;

Yet are distant the stars in the infinite socket;

Newness and thrill fills the restless human race

As the sense of conquest spurs the pleasure;

Man has long back discovered the inevitable fact

That Death dwells as the soul in the body,

Sensing varied struggles and yields to taste;

Between the yester and the morrow the pact -

(Findings and possessions are but vain and gaudy) ,

Of the present is condensed and moulded in haste;

In strange forms and sizes may the colossal life stand,

Yet for sure things will end up -be lost in the Grand

New Creation of colouration, amity and order:

Would nothing ever be Forbidden with brackets

and border?