Life...

This one could have been versed better as well...

We failed to realize the true meaning of life

Nor could we comprehend the worth of sacrifice .

We were supposed to be the Greatest Creation on Earth

Unrepentant though we are at having degraded our worth ;

Responsible are we wholly, for this tragic state,

For warfare and combat, have determined our fate .

“ Where the mind is without fear ” exists no more

Anger and hatred being the only wealth in store ;

This Supreme Being, whose talent was great

But lost has he it in a disgraceful state .

We get just a lifetime to prove our worth

And make should we the most of it from our very birth ;

We were born to fly across the sky

And rise above perils, however high .

But as our enemies threaten our very survival

Challenged do we stand against such rivals ;

Defeat we have to such foes any,

And change we shall our Destiny …

A stranger in my abode...

This is one of my earlier poems that I believe could have been versed better...

Where was the muddy lane, where I walked bare feet?

And the lake where I spent half a day;

And from where did these roads of stones and concrete

And skyscrapers, replace the old houses of clay?

And where were my friends, I left long ago

And my buddies who acted in the pantomimes;

As no face in the crowd, could I conjure

For twenty years was no trifle of a time.

And why looked so sad; the old banyan tree?

Where I spent my blissful evenings

A friend and guide, it was to me

Had befriended none since our parting.

I would talk to it for hours at a stretch

And on anything under this constant sun;

And the letters, I would on its bark warily etch

Seemed to have faded into oblivion.

I had expected everything to be as same as before

Even the barren lands where grass refused to grow,

But a flourishing township and much more

Waited, when I returned from Heathrow.

For time had never been taught to wait

And as I looked down the concrete road,

I could barely recognize our own chalet

And a stranger I felt in my own abode.