Arrival! Poem by Deep Yadav

The 'gyre' hints arrival-
Twenty centuries making room
For a new epoch,
I'm modern bird now,
I may sound haphazard, troublesome and brooding
unimportant topic for hours,
It's up to you to lend ear or not;

I was winged rooster confined to land only,
Now I've become 'hawk', with knowledge of flight
perhaps power too,
Seeing the world from far above
Envisioned me a seer sight;
I see the world functioning; the lowliest on top,
the best in daze, and mediocre relishing mediocrity,
One or two good men wasting
themselves in poetry; Of which none cares.
Oblivious armed men guards the periphery;
At centre white termites gnaws the Door.

At this height, all seems different,
I can't relate with my earlier self;
My knowledge seems nothing but
A stack of white paper, ink fallen here and there;
nothing more.
When I became 'conscious'-
My dreams stopped being dreams—
My thoughts were invaded daily—
Life evolved in million years—
'God is dead', universe all naked.
We're the supreme and Satan both;
Busy in triumphing Nature.
Merging all— Immolated my beliefs.

We've progressed too much, portends
the trembling of earth
And smoke eclipsing the sun.
Death I breathe,
War looms over,
Life is traded in forfeited currency.

I see the world functioning,
I know one or two tricks too to cheat,
To assault, to kill, to loot.
I can foresee the end—
Its good to die starving then
To fly in proximity of land.