It was the time when the eyes failed
as little stars were all that hailed.
Without the moon in the sky soon
darkness was the one which prevailed.
I sat there by the window
in that moonless sleepless night
and heard birds chirping
a sound which is ignored by the light
I thought how people disregard
this beautiful sound by the radiance
Don’t the birds chirp all day
or we just have no time to lay
A wonder it is how we overlook something infront of us
to think of things far ahead
living in the present was a thing of the past
Future-thinking, that’s our new cast
The wonderful chirping was disturbed
by the sudden bark of the hound
He sat there watching his shadow
maybe he didn’t like the sound.
Whatever it was I saw him at once,
he was sitting there like a sculpture
But then suddenly he ran off
behind a car, prey for a vulture
He followed it far and then finally stopped
And then barked for a long time
And it was that time when I remembered
Of a question, long back heard
“Will the dog ever catch a car?”
I laughed at the questioner and replied,
“The question is not whether he’ll catch one
The question is what’ll he do if he does.”
In life we always run
Behind things futile
Without ever stopping once to reflect
What’ll be the resile
We run behind materialism all our life
Without thinking once why we do it
It is for inner peace one would say
but I ask does inner peace come from outside?
Then something else makes me laugh
Are we living a life same as the dog?
Maybe that’s why it is as sleepless as me
But I am shackled and he is free.
Another faint noise gets my attention
This time it is a man I guess
He’s shouting at someone is my deduction
Hearing the intensity and pitch of the blare
Maybe it’s a father scolding his drunk son
Or a man beating the woman he married
Or maybe just a man taking out frustration he brought along
From a hard day at work
Whatever it is it reminds me
Of the swift society we boast
Where feeling are a thing of the past
And anger is the thing we live with most
But I see now rays of hope
Now coming across this eternal sky
And it is a beautiful sight
Where the day mixes with the night
Slowly contaminating the darkness
which suppressed it for so long
Proving that darkness is just an illusion
Soon to be shown by the light
And a beautiful picture it was
When the sky changed colors
But now it will take away just
The peace and quiet
Of the night
