The City Life ...

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]