Cloned Baby

Everyone long to have a cute baby

Once they grow into their youth

With strong feelings of affection

Running inside the heart

To care an innocent face

As the time changed

Relations are in anarchy

Arranged marriages or love marriages

Now there’s no guarantee of getting along together

Egos are fighting it out over every silly thing

Nobody wants to give a damn inch

Dating is no more than a farce event

Many looking for one nightstand

Or to have live in relations without commitments

Age is not a bar anymore

                                  Some rush to marriage, thinking that it will work

Soon to part ways over some fights

Gays and lesbians are just like other couples

It’s hard to believe

Abandoned girls over pregnancy

Or girls walking away for lonely life

Single mothers and single fathers

A reality hurts some times

Time and time again

Cheating husbands and cheating wives

Secret affairs that kills integrity of marriages

Divorces are just like any other formality

No value for relations

There is no love for a lifetime

As people are looking for that elusive love

Always

The long battles for the possession of kids

It’s emotional war fought by attorneys

You can see tearful fathers and mothers

Seeing the court giving the rights of kids

To ex-spouses

Some may never get to see their beloved kids

There arises the question

What about having a cloned baby?

Countless couples struggle to have kids of their own blood

With treatments never yielding results

Some have to rely on donor banks

For getting pregnant

Giving an hidden feeling of guilt of failure

To the partners

Some have to rely on surrogate mothers

They hire their motherhood for someone else’s happiness

For some money

As mere carriers,

They never get to take care of those kids

Whom they given birth after ten long months

They face emotional separation for a lifetime

Why can’t authorities allow people to have cloned babies?

As the technologies are evolving

We have the dolly and other cloned animals

Lived in front of us

May be there’s some short comings

But I feel someone has to take initiative

That could change the lives of millions

Soon hapless cheated singles can have cloned babies

They won’t have to find out utopian partners

They can just have their babies

A reason worthwhile for living, than suffering alone

About-lost love and life

Then those hated lesbians and gays can have kids

Which once all believed as impossible scenario

Let’s make science fiction into reality

If guys can give birth to kid

With sophisticated techniques

Let’s have artificial wombs and incubators

Where babies can grow in peace

And doctors can keep the process in check

Babies are source for happiness

Every one has the right to have own babies

Those who oppose abortion

Open your eyes

See the pain of millions who crave for kids

Without emotional breakdown from relations

May be we can have a better world

With less unhappy relations

Let the singles be virgin parents, if they wish so

As they can’t bear the turbulence of relation

So that they have someone to look after in old age

Let couples have kids from their blood

And have some happiness in their families

You all support research on deadly weapons

For killing hapless and innocent people

Why you can’t let cloned babies to come to this world with smiles?

Just like those test tube babies did some decades back

I am waiting for seeing the smile of a cloned baby

Legendary Tree

Where is that old legendary tree?

For years, it stood as a talismanic figure

In front of a junction of history

Beside the historic royal path

In front of grand old institutions

Like the Victorian town hall, University college, Sanskrit college

It stood and saw the times of change

In the end, fell down to sacrifice itself as the cost

For new age development

Soon vehicles will run

Over the very place, where it stood

It seems something is missing there

Bright light is streaming around

Than that beautiful shadows of branches

Now the roadside vendors

Too went missing as part of change

In rain days, it covered many people from rain

With its massive branches

During hot sunny days, it gave the breeze

It gave shelter to hundreds of people from scorching heat

As they waited, for buses that headed towards their destinations

Now there is a big vacuum

It’s hard to fill in and it never will be filled in

Those who once enjoyed the warmth of it

They will surely miss it whenever they pass by

It’s inevitable, as hundreds have to travel

Wider road is a necessity

That marked the end of a glorious life

It left a mark on the history of the city

I still remember those beautiful greeting cards

Sold under the shade of that tree

During Christmas, Valentines Day, Friendship day etc

I still remember those vendors selling

Vegetables, fruits, seeds and other stuffs

I couldn’t forget some policemen

Standing and helping the pedestrians to cross the road

During rush hours

Now people will wait for bus in the bus shelter

Finally, it will have people standing there

As that grand old tree is no more to give shade

 Soon no one will remember that grand old tree

That stood meters inside the road

It was once a hub of activities

Now its space is a hub for vehicles to run fast