Kalii Kaala Vipareethe… Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

Kali kaala vipareethe…
Needle of time falls half circle
From twelve to six
And dawn goes down to dusk,
All positive turns to negative
And negative to false positive,
It's Kali kaala, Kali kaala vipareethe….

Incompetence looks competent
While true competence, trampled down;
Evils in robes of high values
Intoxicates conscious souls too;
Those that protect and navigate to peace,
Those blossomed from long experience,
Cursed and crushed as false beliefs;
Demon of freedom seizes human mind,
Fundamental rights, civil rights, buzzwords;
Democracy, the rule of average,
Levels world to strife and mediocrity;
Peaks are leveled; gulfs filled,
Quantity takes over quality a' where.

It is reasons, not inner voice,
It is race, rat race; not harmony,
Convictions wiped out of human mind;
Intellect over deeper revelations
Rules the roost while Kali reigns;
It is turning out from within,
Focus on what, and how of the world,
And that boosts the outward world;
It is outer space against inner space,
Power and pomp, not supreme peace;
It is height, not depth,
Length, not the breadth,
Intensities lost to spreading wide,
It is how the Kali manifests.

Kali, from twelve to six,
An ineluctable stop along the passage
Back to the top midday twelve;
No way right or wrong in nature's design,
It is just an hour of nature's process,
Kali, gateway from the dusk to dawn
To herald the sunrise again,
Where again values rule, quality reigns,
Where depth counts in the passage of life;
Where freedom is feared,
Refrain and restraints, buzzwords,
Soundness, not numbers
Counts, measures in life;
The day shall come, however far it is,
And Kali, the darkness shall herald light,
And brings back truth, health and strength.