Prayash Gupta

How badly, I wish I could wear clean clothes.
(I want to live in a peaceful world)

How measurelessly, I wish to wear clean clothes.
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Dear Children, child labour is a very bad thing, it should
be abolished.
(But Sir, why do you keep one at your home)
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Oh God! Thou give the power for my feeble attempts
To immortalize your soul through my trembling verses...
Thou, greatest incarnation of God of our time,
The living legend-perhaps the living God,
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Hey, friends! Did you hear Raju is going to be a Saint?
(Ha ha "All of them", he has gone mad)

What is wrong with him, every time he will be talking
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Gone are those days when Women had to fight for their
Right,
Gone are those days, when man of little knowledge
dominated the entire society,
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I wonder how beautiful the world is!
(The world is beautiful but…)

People may be living in close harmony with each other.
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Never before had we met such a towering personality,
Powerful Orator and a great Scholar.
The way you taught us was like Wordsworth defining poetry -
"Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
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These days what is wrong with the man, they won't ride on me.
(Just open your eyes and see the comfort they find in me)

But they know that I'm Environment-friendly.
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Please don't cut me; I'll serve you throughout my life.
(No, no we will cut you; we have to earn lots of money)

See, I'm giving you shade and fruits.
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Hey man! What you have made of me,
I can't recognize myself, just see.
(Don't you know, we are the master of the World)
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Our friend Rahul earned lots of money.
(Still, he was not satisfied)

When he was small, he used to be penniless.
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I saw myself burning in the pyre
People gathered around
Families beating their chest
Priest reading their texts
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Raj was sitting at the bank of a river,
Sad
Because he was lonely;
Lonely
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When I talk about idealistic world,
Am I mad?
When I say our Earth is a paradise
Am I Mad?
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Jonny was on his way to School
Late, as usual
Speeding his steps now and then
Walking fast, in fact, running
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Tom wants Peace.
(No, no-he wants money)

My fear friend Tom wants Peace.
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Albert have many friends on Face book.
(But I always wander, how many true friend he has in
reality.)
He showed me his thousand and thirteen friends from
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Where are you my love?
You stole my heart and disappeared in the lap of Himalayas,
Wondering not,
How can I lead my life without you
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And again the trickling of holy bells,
Overwhelms my discomforted heart,
Step by step, I proceeded towards the great soul,
Knitting the bonds of relations, floating apart.
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Contaminating, decontaminated contamination
Polluting, control of ceaseless pollution
Spontaneously, not identical the sail of stream on the sand storm
Ceaselessly I flow from my motherly womb of Gangotri,
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