Friday, April 29, 2005

The Fateful Night...

It’s a story of the time
When life was really a bore
Goodness and laughter littered the world
And life was sweet enough to be sore.

Life of simplicity and rustic
Rare as it was for anything new happening
As birth and death laced the cycle
The village folks for weeks kept chattering.

It wasn’t unnatural, no it wasn’t.
For days to be sweltering and nights to be no bother.
And the people, farmers they were
Worshipped the nature for it was their mother.

Time and days held no significance,
And generations really ran monotone,
When all that mattered was harvesting crop
And picking pebbles and stone.

Superstitions ran rampant.
Beliefs not uncommon.
But they were just stories they said, they admired
Over the years told by their gramps beside the fire.

The old and the wise looked on night,
At the sky that told them their future they pondered,
Was it the time really that,
The legend was to come true they wondered.

The stars were unnaturally bright
And the trees swayed wild.
And it was a rage on the land
And the sea could swallow a thousand and one child.

Yes it was time said the elders
To the mirth and amusement of the youth.
Stories told so long ago,
Indeed had a grain of truth.

It is a myth not a lore they said.
We are evolved now father.
Besides we live our lives modern now,
Enough to let the fact not be a bother.

But bother it should have, for the nature moved
With the finality that it disarmingly hurled
When it wrote of Armageddon
And the end of the world.

And it was the night that was decided
By those who controlled the natures flow.
For destiny needed it as much as mankind,
To bring humanity a huge blow.

The stars were unnaturally bright
And the trees swayed wild.
And it was a rage on the land
And the sea could swallow a thousand and one child.

Finally the earth settled, to a deadly silence.
The fateful night that eons would mourn.
And it was the night,
That people had denied existed,
The night when the devil was born.

34 comments:

  1. You're back .. you're back .. you're back!! Huuuuuuugs

    This be a chillin' poem. Very nicely written :). And, the devil be who? La Devil? Purva? :)) .. Is it her budday or what?

    Before she comes after me, I should run and hide!

    Good to have you back :)

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  2. lol no it aint purv, she jus calls herself devilish coz she thinks its smart sounding!! shhhh.dont let da secret out - at a risk o spoilin her image--she is a sweetheart.
    this one was after reading a script written by a frd.
    n yeah it sure is good 2 b bak *grins*

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  3. hey elixir ur exams over or is it still going on ??????
    i echo misty abt the chillin poem part

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  4. Good to have you back. Hope the exam hangover is done with!

    ;-)

    Nice poem. Liked the ending,

    "Finally the earth settled, to a deadly silence.
    The fateful night that eons would mourn.
    And it was the night,
    That people had denied existed,
    The night when the devil was born."

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  5. Ah, self-referential poem is it? :)
    Nice one!

    And welcome back...
    Oh and here is the red carpet...

    :))

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  6. dont u think this post is way too early?? my budday stil months away.

    *my thots bef ur reply to misty* :P

    neways i like nethin in my honour. thanx for the red carpet for me. liked it :P:P:P

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  7. Hey, good one! Back with a band, eh? I really liked that line 'Life was sweet enough to be sore'. Is that a pun, by any chance(sore->sour)?

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  8. :)
    nice one!

    waise i'm related...
    so u see the horns every now and then???

    :D

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  9. hello............good lines.........!! take care!!

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  10. nice perspective, i say... i kinda assumed that good and evil were born together...hmmmm

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  11. Evil one.......hmm.....I though you were writing a bday..rhyme for La devil........

    Good..ur back.....

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  12. Aawww, no connection with da la devil? Guess i'm not as smart in deciphering poetry as i think i am.

    PS: wont ask abt exams :-p

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  13. IM BAAAAACK!!! *hugs* burnt to a cinder and very very much dleep druggged but HALLO AGAIN!!!!

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  14. Mandrake: :) thank u n thank u for da link!!!

    Aparna: exams r over n done wid gurl!!!!

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  15. A: lol yeah!!! finally the exam hangover has passed. took a lot o lime juice *wink*

    Soupy: hehe no it aint self referential.
    n ohh da red carpet!!! THANK U MY LOVELY THANK U!!!!

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  16. The fateful night that eons would mourn.
    And it was the night
    thats such a buuutifool line. i liked it a lot. we still mourn that fateful November night, dont we? ;)

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  17. Sarkarsm: hehe.. its okie sweetie. now look at me. i wasnt all that good wid poetry. takes real effort n my short stories r neither short nor r stories per se...u ju stry n ur posts r funtabulous!!
    thr, now ur turn to say sumthing nice 2 me.*batting eyelashes*

    Purva,purva, purva...*shakes head*
    all that heat is getting 2 u. the red carpet isnt 4 u sweetheart, it is for me, n da poem is also not not in ur honour...thr is a difference between fishing for compliments like i do n blatently snatching da compliment meant for sumone else

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  18. Soxy: lol yep wid a bang alrite!!! n ermm hehe da sore was actually supps 2 b sour, sweet sour that sorta thing...but sore happened. so i supps yes it is sore pun intended.

    Khyats: hehe yeah i see da horns alrite n more da devilish laugh n da twinkle in da eye is da give away
    how were ur exams?? mera was strictly shitty.

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  19. gee: :) rite bak at ya. so ur bak frm delhi yet??

    divs: lady if u were jus not in soo much hurry 2 go *shakes head again*

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  20. manu: i think God was bored wid da goody two shoes and wanted to add spice...me for sure aint complaining.

    BtS: naah her bday is like months away!!!
    n thank u its nice 2 b bak too

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  21. J : ud do a great service by not asking how they were...
    they were okie btw
    n hows u sweetheart

    Grafx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WELCOMEBAKKKKKKKKK
    *tight hug*n hi to u too :D

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  22. lol erratica, no comments on that one...strictly no comments!!!!

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  23. Good to know you are back!

    Compliments, compliments and some more compliments!

    Btw who's the devil and does he have a job offering?

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  24. hie exilir :)

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  25. Thats a scary poem!.. :D.. well written though!

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  26. U sure ppl denied the existence?
    Am sure every one of us agrees its no fun being a saint .. so there sure is a devil in every one ;).... the world wud b one boring place w/o the DEVIL !!!

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  27. Yeah back from Delhi and back in action on Blogger land

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  28. MitB: thank u thank u

    Sangeeta: hey u gurl!!

    Swaps: hi urself

    Jane:welcome...n come bak often :)

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  29. thoughts: aah well true, that too. im talkin bout a simpler life. besides its jus a thought

    Gee: webbie

    shishir: hey u...welcome here and well not been by since a long time....

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