Birthday

Dad

This day

Without your smile

Without your greeting

Without your arrival

With a cake

It’s incomplete

I count it now

As years without your presence

No new wish to fulfill

As I still wish, what you expect me to do

Without you

I am still a kid

Refusing to grow up

Though my beard grew up

I am waiting for that day

When I will get back with you

I will celebrate that day

As my birthday

Nightmares

I don’t see dreams anymore

I see only nightmares

Ever since, you left me

Alone in this world

I am scared to lie on bed

Unless I am that sleepy

As all I think is about you

When I lay alone

As you was my only support

I wasn’t able to sleep many a days

As your memories refused me to get away

And left me in tears

Felt guilty that, I wasn’t able to save you

As you closed your eyes, for the last time

After gasping for the last breath of air

In a desperate attempt to survive

But shores of safety of hospital

Was little too far

By the time, I got a vehicle to take you there

You left me for a new world

I saw you struggling for survival

Many a night

In different scenarios

Where I kept running

In search of avenues to save you

Never once, I succeeded

As I struggled for long,

My friend taught me meditation

Somehow, I caught some sleep there after

Every night

Then trained myself to tire my soul

To get good sleep

But once in a while

I wake up shocked

Seeing another nightmare 

A Crow in the rain

It’s monsoon time here

Rain clouds have built their kingdom in the sky

Chilly winds have started their wild swings

Slight drizzle made those waving coconut trees

Look pretty as newlywed bride

As I watched them through my window

I saw a lonely crow sitting calmly

On the top of tilted roof of a neighborhood house

The roof made of well-woven coconut leaves

Always bear a nostalgic style

In the middle of a concrete jungle

It’s rare to see a crow drenching in rain

So I wondered, why is it sitting there patiently

Is it struggling to fly!

Did it lose its way!

Once in a while, it waved its wings

To drain away the water from its body

And its ash colored neck took a weary look

Just like a hunk having a funky hairstyle

Then I saw a flock of rain insects

Flying from the backside of that house

And my new friend had its eye on them

Just like any predator, so sharp and so focused

Rose very slow making less noise

It snatched one fly with its beak

Without sitting back, it snatched some more

Then took rest for a while

And waited for some more preys

Seeing the bravery of this friend

Some crows flew towards the roof

They sat on it keeping a distance

It reminded me of a row in my school assembly

Without any in fights

They took their fiefdoms to hunt

Rain didn’t deter their quest

As hunger dominated their will

After they finished their decent lunch

They flew away to find shades to rest

As the rain started withdrawing from the scene

The image of my lonesome friend in my mind

Made me wonder

Why I didn’t capture it’s snap!

Re-incarnation of the Extinct

The world is incomplete without you

Countless beautiful animals and birds

We the humans made sure that

You never took birth again

In this helpless earth controlled by us

Our ancestors hunted you down

With the passion for hunting down trophies

To show how brave they were

Or just simply brought unknown enemies

From lands far away without warning

And they simply butchered you down

As if, their hunger never ceased

Some left this earth even before humans took birth

As generations passed by

Curiosity about a lost world of species

Learnt from the encyclopedias and various books

Made some researchers to excavate

To find the remnants of an old world

They found the bones of mammoths, dinosaurs

And countless species

They found countless dormant eggs

They found their ages with carbon dating

And all new techniques

They recreated their body with softwares

And real 3d models

They came up with countless assumptions

About the lifestyle

And the extinction of those species

Made documentaries and movies to show the old eras

To the young kids and to fascinate them

With genome codes, cloning coming to the fore

Along with the crazy minds trying to make artificial life

It won’t be a surprise

If someone crack the genome codes of those species

And then extracting DNA’s from eggs or bones

Or from any preserved bodies

And cloning them to give a re-incarnation

Like we saw in Jurassic park

Our zoos are obsolete with familiar animals

New animals from old era will usher it  

Even then some another species will extinct

Well they can die in peace

With a hope that

Humans will re-incarnate them from the extinct

One day 

Sold for a few pennies

With tears

She looked at her smiling baby

Who just got into this world

Just a while ago

She was proud to be a mother

But she couldn’t afford

To raise her kid

Like she dreamt

Beautiful attires

Lot of toys

Nice food and education

Nor a good home

Destined to struggle

Facing a race against time

Every day

Just to survive another day

With scant resources

When other kids

Play around with fun

She couldn’t take her soul

To such a struggle

When she has to fight

To meet ends

As she can’t even spend time

She was alone 

Abandoned

To face this life

Scared to think

About a treacherous future

For her beloved soul

She thought to give it

A new lease of life

A prosperous journey

With love and care

As someone who craves to love

Waiting

Ready to take her soul away

Ready to

Spend a fortune

For rest of life

To raise her baby with love

She didn’t want money

To survive

She just wanted to get her baby

A secured future

That she can’t even dream to deliver

She kissed her baby for last time

She may not ever see her soul again

But she felt relieved

As she handed over

Her baby to an excited woman

She saw her sparkling eyes

Filled with ecstasy

Like that in small kids

When they get what they wish

Yeah it’s been a wait for long time

It’s been her only wish

Now it’s fulfilled

She cried as she kissed that baby

For the first time

She gave the mother

A bundle of currency

Well ,that money didn’t mean much

May be can get her some breathing time

To search for avenues to live

Baby kept smiling

As she turned around

Walked gingerly

Tears were unstoppable

She didn’t turned back once

As she couldn’t bear that sight

Seeing her baby being taken away

She walked to her home

Cursing at her own plight

Cursing at the man who left her

Costing her beloved baby

Forced to live forever

With the memories

Of a few moments with her baby

Feeling guilty

That she sold her soul for few pennies

But, she had no other choice

All she can do is pray for her baby