BRUTALITY or FILTH …THE CITY LIFE
[Foreward : It took me a trip to my native place (Which is a small Town in Orissa) to realize the varied colors of the "City life" that I have been born and brought up in since I breathed for the first time ... Especially having lived in a City, which in turn is in one of the Most cosmetic states of our Country ,life surely felt lot different in my ancestral home ....So when one day I got an hour to myself over there I just sat in a secluded place and wrote down the below ....Knowing SpunKo, if you do, you must surely expect a helluva lengthy poem ...but as always Its "From the heart" and thus I wish you Patience !!! Read every stanza as a different Characteristic/Topic/Feeling that I want to portray and then afterwards try to link all the Stanzas ...I HOpe you will like it !!!!]
Think all the while of a life in exile
Me all alone in the bushes, all agile
No Traffic, no Bills, no Riots, no Kills
But you could always fall on Nature’s thrills
A life a la Saints of Saffron paints
No Corruption charges and thus no Taints
But can’t yet remember was there ever a day,
Did I ever crave to be a City Slave ??
Here things are different, people all agile
Fast, faster, fastest the motto all the while
People Work, people Drink, people Sleep, but only 40 winks
‘If he does good, I can do better’, is how everyone thinks
Pills, thrills, drills are all that make a day
‘cause Love, Betrayal, Felony all come in the fray
Life is just as clean as Purest mucky water
You’re always on your toes on who’s with your daughter
And now that you are the City Slave ..
Rural life is what you really Crave..
There is a word here we all know simply as CULTURE
Where people sit around some liquid (id=or) pouring all sorts of emotion
They do discussions out of waste just like a dead feeding vulture
And even if they can’t walk, they’re Fine, this is their Notion
I never quite understand why Emotions are compared to a few Liquids
There is even a theory, that you lose your status when you ‘call it quits’
Whenever I see college goers entertain themselves with ‘It’
“That’s child Abuse”, I scream inside, Isn’t it ??
And this is just a glance
Of how City life makes you Dance …
There’s another creed of people who love to see a Foggy day
But how can there be Fog if it isn’t winter or if it is May ??
These are the people who make unique use of paper
They wrap it around certain Poison guised as Black powder
And when they put it between their lips and use it as a Blower
There is born a new class of people called as the freaking SMOKER
Addictive as it may not seem
It’s a harsher killer than even a Devil’s scream
It gets into your lungs to spread a Ghost called Cancer
Or atleast it makes sure your Heart is unable to give your Breath’s answer
This is the most common abuse a teenager does face
Now only thing I can ask for them is Gods Grace
Even though all these seems like the edge of a Knife,
It’s just part of the City life …
There are many more things found in a City’s case
Murders, Road rage, Robbery, Illegal estates
But there is a certain factor that really matters
‘cause LOVE is a universal language that the world caters
Here Affection is categorised into 3 different sectors
Friendship, Business, Relationship namely the Chapters
There is a subtle difference between Friendliness and a Friend
‘cause a Friendly person on one day,on another day may make you the Daggers end
In Business, heavy pockets guarantee you Friends many
But once you are broke, your friends are as less as Penny
And then there is this worldly term called RELATIONSHIP
The virtues of which can be compared to the Titanic ship
When you are a Couple, the world is just Jealous
But when you are Single, the world is Curious
People fear the worst, they ask if you’re Happy (Happy = G*y)
But when you are a Couple, you face a stick called Hockey
Confusing as it is, I really wish people Understand
Atleast for Humanity .. Leave LOVE alone to Stand
And now when I reflect upon all the above things …
I sometimes just feel that I had longed for all these Thrills
Or did I ??? Even if I did or did not …
Brutality or Filth … THIS IS CITY LIFE !!! I shout .
- PB/SpunKo
[Note : ...its complicated .....just in case you didn't quite get the Essence of the above ...here's some help ....
Stanza 1 : Wish
Stanza 2 : The City Life Summary
Stanza 3,4,5 : the 3 aspects/abuses
Stanza 6 : summin up ...
Thanks 4 your patience
-PB]
