Red Monday................

Monday morning is not quite blue today,
For its been all red since Saturday.
Human faith is in complete tatters,
To live, and not explode, is all that matters.

As khaki covers the cityscape,
I just don’t have a way to escape.
I must work, I must live
I must create a world – make believe,
Where the city shows great spirit,
To hell with the spirit, its our new habit.

Everytime a bomb goes off,
We engage in this grand show off.
Where we dare to live our lives again,
Claim ‘their’ efforts have gone in vain.

But do we have a second path?
How do we stop this bloodbath?
We are none but helpless creeps,
We carry on as our heart weeps.

We have survived another day,
But what when the next one comes our way?
We might escape yet again,
But with such a life, what do we gain?

Violence breeds in angry minds,
Another victim terror finds.
We must end this vicious turn,
And never let this nation burn.

But an end to it is not in sight,
Just waiting for the holy light.
Till comes the next dance of death,
Lets hold our lives with abated breath.

The Ghost is back

Who is a ghost? I asked mama,
A devil who’s never seen, she said.
What does he do? I asked her again,
He kills and is very mean, she said.

As years flied by, I never saw the ghost,
I gradually forgot his story,
The devil of my childhood, i feared the most,
Was now distant memory.

Now i was young, healthy and hale
Looking to win the world,
I was scripting a successful tale,
A new age was to herald.

But one fine day, as the clock hit six
Hundreds were blown away,
Bombs and guns, in a deadly mix,
Had done the work, they say.

Who has done it, was the question asked,
As we helped one another,
Get hold of him – the devil masked,
We all shouted together.

God came down to my dreams that night
And slowly whispered to me,
The Ghost is back, with all his might,
For all of you to see.

What did you do? I yelled at him,
Why didn’t you save?
I don’t know, you created him,
So its your turn to be brave.

I made man, nature and birds,
You created boundaries,
I taught truth, peace and good words,
You created worries.

You fought hard, and spoiled the world,
Now you all must pay,
Get united and save the world,
As the ghost holds his sway.