YOU AND ME

YOU AND ME

Lyrical lines

Haltingly flow under my pen

Painting a vision unfolding before my eyes

Is it before? Or of things to come?

Shifting and shaping, events beyond my ken!

Paint I must, with words deliberate

Lest I myself, however unwitting, trigger a spate,

For words flung into the atmosphere

Takes on life and form, morphing each and everywhere

For words were at the start of the existence of

You and me.

Throngs, push and rally, Baba Sai!

Fanatically blinded, to the lack of merit,

Despite the wailing of many, whose one refrain is Baba?! Kai!

Obviously wilted, certificates not legit,

Still he pronounces, I AM THE CHANGE!

On that we all agree, what we debate…

 Is - WHAT KIND OF CHANGE?

The Good Book, says we will be given leaders after our own heart

Is he perhaps a reflection of what our souls are?

Is he just the public face,

Of the secret you, and me?

  

Smoke and light,

The picture fades, then bright!

For with every prophesy

One different action, shifts the sands of time

Another time, another lie

The declaration is made

There is a cracking, rumbling, groaning

Even the earth revolts,

The pervading spirit of the air,

Awakens the monster from its lair

The Beast hitherto sleeping,

Time which stretched seemingly unending,

Has now roused!

Set to ravage everything,

Including you and me.

This monster is in you, and me

Reduced to Neanderthals, we fight

For our dreams, hopes, very existence

We know what the norms are, the expectations

But whatever,

Unthinking, uncaring, with deep feelings

We change our fate

For the prophesy is just vapor

Lacking substance or truth

Without our action!

2019, is you and me.