CONFOUNDED
life that lay like a simple serpentine village road
across vast sprawling agricultural land
offering peepings at moon and girlfriend
from behind tall jute plants with careless feet stuck in mud ,
reading of immature love letters in company of select friends
with young heart heaving under heavy thud !

where is that noon of bliss
when we brothers stealthily slipped into fallow fields,
giving the cheat to father in deep sleep,
flying kites that nestled against tall palm trees
whispering myths of new love to the breeze
that swayed the taut kites tickling hearts at ease!!

gone are those days of relative peace, yielding place
to sickly love in cities with its deluded, diseased groins
rat race, road-rage on Highways and anger in the loins
with impure blood ambling inside complex veins and arteries!!!

we are a confounded generation sticking to some values
of a past half dead and clamoring to hold on to the new
the full shape of which is yet to take shape in a different hue
aren’t we heading towards a smokier future and murkier issues !!!!

copy right : saroj k. padhi