Are We Living For Today? ? Poem by Avik Datta Gupta

Are we living for today? ..
Without thinking about our future..
And shunning all our pasts..
Or taking life as it comes it’s way
Are we standing by the mirror?
Refusing to see ourselves
Seeing virtual reflections
On a cloudy day..
Are we living for today?
To blind out someone’s daylight
To appear in the limelight
Being blind ourselves anyway
As the Sun smiles from the horizon
And the Moon smiled in the night sky
As we did our masterpieces..
Being too scared to look at them

Those people with bloody hands
And those with filthy minds
Were painting on their faces
To hide their evil ways
Were they scared of bitter truths..
And fond of telling lies..
And flew the clear blue skies..
As the vulture watched it’s prey

Did they think about their children
Did they think about their loved ones
Or played a tragic actor
In a life that was a play
Are we feeling disappointed
Are we feeling disrespected
To all these true sarcasms
In our living for today
Do we say we had no means
Do we say we have no freedom
Or say, ”We like the way it is..
For we are living for today”