DEMOLITION IN / IS PROGRESS
I saw a sign board on the Royapettah  high  road,
The broken debris carried in lories that were rowed.
I was immensely immersed in poetic reflections,
I got dissolved in philosophical speculations.
Is this the nature of change and growth?
Tear down the old structures of unworth.
Destroy the worthless worn-out structures,
Send them  off  in the dignified stretchers.
The beauty of life is to go backward,
But the business of life is to go forward.
Permanence, in the world impermanence ?
Dismantle the old for our great existence.
When Transience is life, you better browse,
How come permanence be your spouse.
Old is to be emptied,
The new is to be beautified

Yours- POONGUNDRAN









 

- Poongundran