mayabini

Oh! see that man…
Scrawny, haggard and unkempt.
Have seen him in the pavement since days.
Must’ve been not so grotesque once…
Now only a vestige of that remains.
Like some memories sweet…
Everything in him was faded
But spare a thought for his eyes…
They betray his state of being…
They stand like some rocks…
Enduring the wild sea.
How many secrets do they hold?
How many tears they might have shed?
Mocking at the very world that calls him insane.
Maybe he could’ve made something great
---- Out of his life!
Just like the way engineers and managers do!
Maybe that drunkard had some better plans!!
Drinking deep that perennial nectar…
Showing disdain to life and death alike.
Everyone stares at him while passing by
But he’s blind to them all…
He just smiles at imaginary things
And shrugs his head.
No wonder people call him mad!!
Nobody understood him…
But now he just doesn’t care.
Time ceased to exist for him…
As if it has come to a standstill.
What do they call him?
A living dead?!
A nowhere man?!
Perhaps…
Life they say is about moving on
Where love’s just a journey
Towards the destination.
But who’ll make him understand…
He just doesn’t seem to care.
Life has many meanings…
Inherent or otherwise.
But for some they are more profound.
Not everything is means to an end.
The heart does play a game…
That reason knows nothing of!
I feel pity for him…
But I wonder if he felt anything.
Beating of the heart doesn’t make a man alive
What a waste of life…. what a waste!!
When dreams rot…
And mind stores them for keeps
That’s what makes life a livin’ Hell!
Poor man…
Why you chose to suffer…
And put all of us to shame?
Why don’t you forget everything
And start life afresh?
Maybe there’s someone waiting for you
In the spirit’s shore.
Just don’t fade away…
Coz, it’s not the way.
Maybe one day all will understand
What you did to yourself.
But I guess that…
It’ll be too little too late by then.
You gave your life for that someone special
Although she didn’t even looked back!
‘’May you find salvation’’---
Nowhere man…
May your penance succeed!!! Amen.