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Hemant Gawande

Poems
- Quest Of A Lifetime
- The Making Of A Mahatma (A Saga Set Into The Medieval Times)

The Making Of A Mahatma (A Saga Set Into The Medieval Times)
         by Hemant Gawande


....well I first went into the wildest part of the kingdom
where I witnessed deliberate quarrels, haggles and
feuds amid the populace of the serfdom
going blatantly out of control and suppressions
garnering relentlessly
with malice aforethought, & the struggle for survival
and liberty
from the nasty captivity
of the aristocracy.
It was the seamy side of life.
Oh sorry! 'twas a wrong number for me.

So again I stood and marched forward,
my eyes looking ahead, my steps well advanced.
This time I knocked into the hull of a leviathan.
No 'twas a ship, I should say, rowing to the lands of Manhattan.
I climbed the stairs and crossed the gazebo hall
'twas an orgy, I discovered when I entered the crystal ball
There was a grand soiree,
in a lavishly well crafted marquee.
And the people busy in hobnob loosing their sentinence,
playing lyres & cymbals gaudily without any signs of cognizance.
When friends meet hearts warm,
when buds bloom bees charm.
But I was pale like a white sheet of paper entrapped
between the raskills' ongoing smut.
I could do nothing but keep my EYES WIDE SHUT!
Again 'twas a wrong number for me.

First I could not bear the smite,
next I could not makeup my mind.
So with plethora I fled from the station and sought
respite at the house of a recluse
who would patiently understand my dilemma and here my impasse
....after all life is a journey
and this time it was the sound number for me....







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