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Dr.ALAN JOHN.N.CHANDAR,
69, LANE 5, DEFENCE COLONY,
ALTO DE PORVORIM,
BARDEZ-GOA 403521,
INDIA
MOB: +919822165910
email: checknjohn@gmail.com

THE VOID AND THE FILL

Ornamental universe, in dark emptiness acts,

manifesting a play of jubilees without end,
the spectator and actor exchanging places at will,
a dual role that only Yin-Yang can fill.

Thoughts without matter become matter without thoughts,

and the Spirit dwelling ageless takes shelter in a flesh,
Bone of bones and Flesh of flesh bring colour to life,
Death gaining meaning in a powerful fight!

All meaningless sunrise brought to drama with clouds,

a wind of might to churn the earths surface and plough,
growing green foliage and hills to touch a moon on high,
with birds and glowing worms to tweet and twinkle bright.

Mammoth beings with trunks and miniscule particles rise,

each playing games of survival in its heights,
gazelles and clawing cats come to rest,
by banks of rivers which swell with rains in their midst!

Fishes of all sizes and shapes swim and leap,

snakes and adders add fear as they peep,
insects of prey nibble at mossy growth under the earth,
with reptiles changing colours throwing tongues at their feast.

O what a purpose and meaning profound evolves,

of Life with stars and foxy moon of birds and nights
with men and women exchanging favours in dim lights,
while wives and husbands in oblivion are left to their plight!

Candles try to chase the darkness over tables

leaving empty the fickle hearts of love to fables,
for The Tempter of old, alive and always ahead,
waits now in more ways and shapes to tread;
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Cars and convertibles, put to shame the beds,

in bedrooms foaming jealous thoughts in their steads.
micro cameras and mobile phones hide images unread,
on private screens later in secrecy to be spread;

Capsules of chemicals make men into mice,

In nightclubs which melt burning spirit in ice!
smoke as from chimneys cloud the eyes,
while noisy thuds and shrieks are music for the highs .

Implants lift ageing parts that sag,

and premature droops get their lift and wag,
balding scalps grow new flowing hairstyle,
and wombs in sixties become fertile!

A tilt in balance of the Yin and Yang grows,

more negative and dark than ever before,
buses and lonely roads, a haven for rape,
with hungry men waiting as hounds in haste!

Borders of countries dissolve for barns

or get riddled with mines and fences of arms;
silver and gold for ammunitions trade,
rich countries pawn the poorer for grade!

Sands now in silicon chips reborn,

chips that hold deep secrets beyond,
currency is God, we humans earn,
preserved as plastic cards, safely worn.

Men and women wear trousers torn,

over knees, and sewn like beggars darns,
boast of brands Stone wash and Live In,
calling them by a name sounding like genes!

And now the medical men alter them too,

genes in disorder causing a disease or two,
by engineering marvels of sewing molecules,
one to another across the bonds holding clue!

Love now is taught in schools how to make,

with precision to spare the burden of mistake,
of babies that may fill the earth and partake,
of the living and the dead of food & space!

He says:
I take you, with all my unreserved self,
my soul mate for all lives to live,
and in all the seasons of life,
Ill travel with you as nail to its bed
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over paths that we decide together to tread.

She says:
I respect and listen, talk with kindness and concern,
hold you in my arms and heart as my most beautiful friend,
lover and companion to cherish until the end,
and share all joys and sorrows you dwell, I consent!

But,
WWF and Beach volleyball draw wild cheer,
Drawing eyes to pop on to the front and the rear,
Of gullible women trading for freedom so dear,
cause many are tired within much a year!

While just a few, with silver spoon on their lips,

have their cake and eat it too without fail
lifes a gamble for many on the trail,
of fame and money and respect to avail;

They go sad, unhappy, empty and as none,

sometimes, buying pistols and perfidious guns,
turn the busy schools and places of fun
into a butchery or warzone, with no emotions.

And a number of others draw a rope to their necks,

with a hope, a dream unfulfilled and strewn,
or an overdose of over the counter
or an under the counter eventual pill.

Currencies fall and rise to whimsical tides,

till a few who hold the world to ransom ride,
feed poor countries with drugs and dangerous lies
and sow seeds for terror in minds defiled.

Ballot boxes rigged, and computers hacked,

and presidents elected in barbarian style; (if this isnt serious)
come watch the sporting men and women, dodging their skills,
lose or win matches for riches, at their will.

The spectator beams in joy at the pretentious win,

while the men behind the scene laugh, drowning the din,
the Darwinian selection &survival, not a theory anymore,
it stands tested by time, evolving species more akin!

On pavements some humans in rags try to sleep,

while the spoilt young rich in SUVs screech,
lawyers tailored to suit the need of the hour reach,
to bail out the culpable from a homicidal breach!
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Among all the dust and scratch of human lives,

a set of people with words and paints arise,
making the earth a better place to live
though the worlds a mere stage to survive.

A little here, a little there of the story I told,

of the Genesis, the growth and Being we behold,
in an ornamental universe the Creator Consciousness told,
Let there be Light for everything to unfold!

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