To Kill Time Poem by Ravinder Kumar Soni

You made me laugh years go
When we were young and had no care
But plenty of time to kill,
We had nothing else to do
Except for play and laze;
From you, I learnt what idleness meant
And how to be lazy,
It was this learning that made me
Laugh aloud and writhe in pain;
I have not forgotten those moments.
And now, when I am old
I have had all the time in the world
To do what I liked
But did nothing
Out of the fear of being called selfish
Because I have learnt to value time
To make it purpose-oriented and staid.
Such a time does not suit me.
I cannot retain my jovial nature
And so did not laugh like before
When you, my friend, eagerly enquired,
How I killed time.