The day I didn’t wear clothes; I shivered
uncontrollably in the austere breeze of uncouth
winter,
They day I didn’t eat food; I found myself miserably
slithering towards the corridors of precarious
starvation,
The day I didn’t write poetry; I found my fingers
virtually paralyzed; and the blood in my robust veins
metamorphosed into a morbidly colorless liquid,
The day I didn’t bathe; I felt pools of disdainfully
fetid sweat; stab my impeccable visage more than a
billion treacherous thorns,
The day I didn’t sleep; I felt daggerheads of
insurmountably fatigued exasperation; assassinating
each iota of my blissfully mental peace,
The day I didn’t wink; I felt the romantic youth in me
die an obnoxiously famished death; all mischief in the
atmosphere pathetically desert me like a piece of
dilapidated garbage,
The day I didn’t pray; I felt like a diabolical
monster; drifting further and further away from the
sacrosanct countenance of Omnipotent God,
The day I didn’t lie in the lap of my mother; I felt
as if the world had come to a brusque end; there
wasn’t an iota of humanity prevailing in any quarter
of this colossal Universe,
The day I didn’t swim; I felt as if the insatiable
exuberance in my bones had died a profusely
asphyxiated death,
The day I didn’t discover; I felt as if my
incredulously augmenting fantasy; had ruthlessly
blended with ethereally dwindling horizons,
The day I didn’t dream; I felt that life was a
barbarically monotonous workshop; with each hour of
the day relentlessly restricted to the realms of
parasitic office,
The day I didn’t realize; I felt horrendously pompous
and pretentiously inflated; with my conscience
whipping me to profusely apologize to the mesmerizing
winds outside,
The day I didn’t drink water; I felt the tumultuously
scorching agony in my throat; compelling me to swoon
like withering fish on the ground,
The day I didn’t tease my sister; I felt as if I
sitting astoundingly close to my grave; although I was
just on the threshold to commence life,
The day I didn’t gaze at the resplendent stars; I felt
as if my world was intransigently confined to the four
bare brick walls of my dwelling,
The day I didn’t respect my elders; I felt that I was
boisterously irascible fly; about to be inevitably
squashed by the sword of righteousness,
The day I didn’t listen to my heart; I felt as if I
had horrifically failed in every attempt of mine;
although I stood towering on the absolute pinnacle of
life,
The day I didn’t wholeheartedly love; I felt there was
no reason to survive; started prematurely on my
journey to the heavens; without the tiniest
insinuation of Almighty Lord,
And the day I didn’t breathe; there was no time for me
to feel or romanticize about hell or heaven; for I lay
like a wholesomely mute corpse; infact to cut the
story short; I was irrefutably dead….
(c) (r) copyright-2004, by nikhil parekh. all rights reserved.



