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Life’s greetings
Yesterday, it was mildly sunny and life was seeking its usual delights,
Rejoicing in human struggles and their feelings of despondency and wretched plights,
It moved from one lane to another, one passage to the next and from the road to a new highway,
To claim its victims whose number always increased whether it was night or it was day,
And as it happened to cross an allay and it ogled at man who happened to be there,
She went towards him and into him life sank at that very moment, right there,
The man walked briskly clueless about what had happened,
Suddenly his emotional senses deepened,
And he ran in all directions, from lanes into gullies, from highways to narrow passages,
Life had held him in ceaseless array of cages,
Fate tossed him around, chance pushed him everywhere, and then serendipity held him somewhere,
Until the man was lost in the strifes of life that had possessed him from everywhere,
Life was happening right in front him but now it was acting through him,
It did not matter whether he was passing through endless highways or gullies slim,
Fate played its every trick on him while chance tried its best to make him believe in diabolic energy,
He appeared to have lost with his own life that faint sense of synergy,
Because life that represented everything was seeking something from this man,
He experienced worlds that existed beyond common imagination of any woman or man,
But life that stirred a heavock within him, wanted him to believe life was indeed pernicious,
But the man kept believing life was indeed beatiful and not so noxious,
So he dealt with fate, with chances, with serendipity as well,
While he was trying to deal with life that represented everything and had created in him a strife’s bottomless hell,
One day he realised it was but a cunning manipulation, where one street led to another, designed to go on forever,
And when he decided to observe everything, appreciate all, but follow them all he should never,
Because every street led to another lane, that further led to another street,
Where life at every turn was waiting in a new desire’s disguise from which he could never retreat,
And finally when he had reached the end of the street, that merged with another,
He looked around, felt his heartbeat and whispered slowly, “I know visual desires make you seek one after another!”
Then the life that had sank into him appeared before him and spoke,
“You are the only man who has uncovered this secret, and you shall be the only one who my spell broke,
So I grant you my all gifts and I shall be your guide now onwards, and never shall I leave you,
Because in you I shall now rest, because the peace I have been seeking for long now, I only find it in you,
And for this I shall live in you forever and be yours now and later too,
When life doesn't walk on the streets, but there where heavens meet; there too I shall be waiting for you,
Because you are the wonder life has never witnessed nor shall it witness ever,
And I loved being nestled inside you as your slightly cussed lover,
Go now, and seek your every wish, for I grant you the universe,
And for you there shall be life waiting not in this verse but in the multi verse!”
Since then the streets vanished, only the roads of reality reappeared,
And now neither the man nor the life strayed!
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