Amidst a redundancy called life I was choking on a tasty meal called affinity. Trying to disappear from the interwoven disagreements and unable to face the upsetting notions and prejudices about people I walked into a hallow cavern of self sympathy and hurt. Mildly disturbed by a friend’s disappointment and disillusionment a question was popping up every second. What the answer should have been was still a mind boggling quest. All the boys and girls who assembled to bid farewell to a dear one were actually seeing off each other, forever. The crossroads at the foot were really chewing off a good chunk of their hearts, not knowing a thing about choices to make. A melodious hope arose from the flutes of sacrifices where men killed their brothers to save the lives of their friends who would soon destroy them. Aspirations were of a distant past where hope was still a word recognised by the mind. They marched in unity and discipline to mark their respect to a life that was fit for king’s servants whose heart sought nothing but compassion and the meals that got them through the day.
They sang a song that ran like this:
We are the beautiful children
Of this livening earth
Albeit a willingness
The dunes were all red
Forming a tapestry
On the chosen savannas
Along along we go
Walking on this stage together
Everywhere we go
Imaginations ran wild
Through the forests;
The land of fins,
Was it a dream in reckoning?
Amorphous creatures beckon
To disappear in the oblivion
Along along we go
Walking on this stage together
Everywhere we go
The rage of the purple haze
Tearing the eyes off insolence
Dancing to the tunes of melodrama
A picture of emotion
That rode a sieve bridge
Hallow and ridged like a warrior
Along along we go
Walking on this stage together
Everywhere we go
Every night of this musical feat
We shiver through a little upbeat
High on sweetness of the rotten cane
Burials and odes to the brave men
‘Cause we are the children of the livening earth
We were born and lived to embrace the god of death
Along along we go
Walking on this stage together
Everywhere we go
(Nayana, Sat, July 22 2006,11:41:48 a.m.)
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