Only Now......... Poem by gaurishankar chemudupati

Only now I came to know
That there is water that kills fire
And fire that floats water!
Are there thorns that prick flowers
And flpwers that hide thorns
For self protection!

Only now I came to know
That the dark sky too
Has got Crores of eyes!
Sun and moon are not
Above the atoms minute!

Youth that does not stand
On earth but fly in the air,
Shall, one day, have to drown
In the quagmire of desease!
Life that is thought of
As ever shininglight
Extinguishes in a second!