And the miracle was done!

He felt his slender throbbing legs

As fear coursed through all the four

His screaming senses pointing at

The approaching danger furthermore

He was but a few weeks old

A little fawn yet very agile

New to this World so large

Unaware of the capricious Wild

All stood still in the tall grass

To move he did not dare

His neck now craned to his right

To the danger now more aware

The afternoon Sun beat down on him

As he tried to look around

And then he caught the change in green

A shade of very hairy brown

Out lunged a mighty beast

The pride’s great alpha male

The little fawn had darted now

With a giant lion on his tail

Swift as an arrow, against the wind

On his nimble feet flying away

In hot pursuit the lion was

Top predator versus little prey

The lion inched bit by bit

Within his grasp the agile fawn

In his monstrous jaws the little thing

Would disappear now forever gone

With a final leap upon the fawn

He dug deep his dagger claws

He landed in a cloud of dust

In which his prey was completely lost

The fawn would live for another day

As he was the victorious one

He reached the herd and moved on

And thus the miracle was done

  

The biggest twist of the mobile age!

            This was when i was nineteen. I was addicted to Whatsapp, hooked to Facebook and forever in front of the television watching football.
             So my parents took urgent measures to curb this. My cell was taken away, the internet was banned and the cable was cut. Doomsday was upon me and i couldn't do a thing about it. 
             After a week of surviving hell, a ray of hope finally presented itself. My parents and our neighbours, the Sharmas had been invited to a marriage function. I was appointed babysitter to look after the Sharmas' two year old son, Vivek. And thank my stars, the neighbours insisted that i come over to their house to look after him. My rehab was coming to an end for a day and coincidently Barcelona were playing Real Madrid. NIRVANA!
             After they left, i sat comfortably in front of the T.V. and put on the sports channel. As i settled down to see my favourite team play, i looked around to make sure that Vivek was fine. 
             But the little guy was no where to be seen. I searched the entire house but there was no clue as to where he was. As i emerged in the hall again, the pesky little trouble-maker shot out from below the sofa with the precious remote in his hand. The channel had been changed to a depressing Saas-Bahu serial in which the mother-in-law was plotting the end of her daughter-in-law. 'DAMN,' i muttered under my breath and ran around the house chasing mini Usain Bolt. I was soon panting as the stupid Bahu on T.V. was running from goons out to kill her. The match was to begin at 10 p.m. and it was already 10:15p.m. And in a desperate attempt, i lunged at him but caught empty air. But the channel had once again been changed to the sports channel in which it seemed Barcelona was dominating the game. I breathed a sigh of relief and sat down once again when the brat materialised again making faces and taunting and changing the channel to a kids show. I bore it and expected him to settle down in front of the T.V. But instead he switched off the T.V. and threw the remote. I watched my precious break in front of my eyes.
              I thought i heard a snigger from him and once again it was a game a cat and mouse. I had forgotten all about the match and this was about my honour. I had lost my cell phone, my unlimited access to the internet and T.V. and now Vivek, the innocent kid that he was, had broken the T.V. remote which had taken away with it the last shred of my sanity.
              I do not know how long it went on but eventually i did catch him when he slipped on some of the water he had flung on my face in the wash room.
              Now as i stood victoriously over him, he started bawling his lungs out threatening to awaken everyone in the building. My ears tore open and the next hour was spent in dancing around like a lunatic, offering to play with all the soft toys he had and even inviting him to ride me like a horse. But he did not stop and i cursed my immaturity. As i thought nothing worse could happen, the bell rang and i froze on the spot. After a moment or two, gingerly opened the door allowing the Sharmas a full view of their wailing child. I expected a deadly barrage of verbal scoldings from them but to my shock and the biggest twist in this story, his father calmly walked up to Vivek and handed him his smartphone. The kid immediately shut up and started playing games on it.
             My parents showed no surprise and waited to take me back home.
'WHAT THE ...,' i muttered as i was dragged back home with Vivek playing angry birds on the phone.    
                

I miss my School

I waited for the bell to ring

and for the next class to begin
But the boredom ceased to end
So students failed to attend

P.T. classes were such fun
Down to play we would run
Playing football with my friends
Under the raging afternoon Sun

Physics, Chem and Bio would
 threaten my report's score
Social Sciences would eat my head
While the Maths was such a bore

But languages were fun to learn
for the teacher was not so stern
And marks she would throw at us
So willingly without a fuss

For the annual day we would wait
In an auditorium ornate
With performances worth the prize
And proud tears in our parents eyes

The sports day was a rush
With sports events in the slush
We would make our houses proud
As our mates cheered out aloud

The march past rumbled the ground
Screaming students on the stands abound
And the medals and the victory stand
With grinning faces covered with sand

And the terminal exams would come
Difficult for many,easy for some
'I am failing this time man'
And many would use means under-hand

The rankers' names on the board
for in exams they mighty scored
The others with their jealous eyes
But congratulated in disguise

Then the boards along with standard tenth
torturing us to a length
And tuitions classes full year
Our 'futures' would be decided here

Those days were the longest known
and then suddenly we were grown
The time came for separate ways
was this the end of days?

But these times in our hearts will be
Those evergreen memories
I miss my awesome school
and even some of its strict rules

Christmas is Here!

Bells are ringing
Choirs singing
End of year
Christmas is here!

Old and young
All have fun
Festive fever
Christmas is here!

A sheet of white
As far as our sight
Frost appears
Christmas is here!

Joy is spread
'Merry Christmas' is said
As traditions endear
Christmas is here!

Holy night
The Birth of Christ
Hear, Hear
For Christmas is here!


Gifts are given
Santa's sleigh is driven
By four reindeer
Christmas is here!

Christmas trees
And festivities
Distances clear
Christmas is here!

Naughty become nice
Sugar and spice
Wishes are sincere
Christmas is here!

Carols are sung
By old and young
With loved ones, dear
When Christmas is here!

So laugh and sing
When Santa brings
Your gifts and cheer
For Christmas is here!

Judgement Day

The Skies turned a bloody red
The belching grounds tore open
Helpless screams heard in the air
Giving way to  destruction

Proud structures reduced to rubble
Thousands of cars swallowed up whole
The Lord's rage poured down on Earth
Just as it had been foretold

Man now as weak as a bug
Turned to the hostile skies
But his pleas never reached
For deaf ears received his cries

The sleeping giant finally awoke
As the Earth let out a deathly roar
With rivers of lava shooting out
From the very depths of its active core

Forests burned to ashes turned
As life burned to exist
The seas let out monster waves
Causing the continental drift

The Earth took on its burning mantle
As Judgement Day had arrived
The forces of Nature ravaged on
Until there was no sign of life

And now the Earth was young again
With creation to commence
With seeds of new life to be sown
To be followed by new events

26/11-the black day

26/11-The black day

Mumbai had never seen a blacker day

With an attack aimed at its heart

The very ripples of the attack

Tore its very fabric apart

Cowards of men sneaked in

The deathly silence of the night

And then marched, killing innocents

Coming within their sight

Taking Mumbai as hostage

Thus holding it to ransom

Striking terror, their motive

In a fashion most gruesome

But our men in uniform

Mobilized and rushed to the city’s aid

From the constables of the police force

To the commandos of military grade

They engaged the cowards for days

With the city standing still

Waiting with baited breath

As it witnessed the gun battles

One was taken alive

And the others were taken out

And their lives and deeds

Would be forgotten about

Courage triumphed over terror

Albeit at a cost

With lives of bravehearts

And innocents lost

But they did not die in vain

Unlike the cowards they fought

For even in times of darkness

Unity among us they brought

Now six years have passed

And the memory of that day lives on

Lest we forget the sacrifices

And the lives that were laid down

We have grown stronger

And it is time we proved so

Terror will never get away

And its time this it knows

The Woes of a Star Gazer

I searched the sky for those countless stars

That once adorned the night sky

Millions of those sparkling wonders

Open to the naked eye.

I am a star gazer

And I stare at the sky so blue

For this I am a fool

And I have a message for you.

Those stars, the residents of the sky

Hang out from an inky blue dome

As their neighbours try to reach out to them

The ones who call Earth their home

But now they remain hidden

With a handful rarely in sight

Masked by dense smokescreens

And outdone by the city lights

 And now it gets only worse

With nights that look like days

Those twinkling stars so hard to see

As if they were spirited away.

But they are very much there

We just have to clear the haze

And dim a little those city lights

And resume our star gaze

 For now also the visible moon

Searches the night sky

For her companions who

Beyond our ignorance lie

But it is a problem difficult to solve

And it continually grows

Along with it increases

A star-gazer’s woes