Birthday Greetings and Musings on World Recession -Part II

The essence of life is
It appears, to face every kind of, adversity
And live with smile and courage.
Besides loving and laboring,
Sharing and caring,
Laughing and dancing,
Crying and worrying,
There must be time,
To contemplate, and
Ruminate over the “very life itself”.

Though, still young, you are ahead of age,
Vastly matured and greatly balanced,
It’s too early to turn towards
Basic facts of life or
Rather to understand the mysteries of life.
As 1945 marks year for the benchmark
Launching world monetary reform
Two thousand one September birth day
Represents a great divide.
First fifteen years of life
Have been spent, consumed away
In pursuit of simplest pleasures of life.
Befriending people,
Enjoying dance
And indulging in
Occasional deep slumber.

You were not that lucky
To enjoy peace and bliss;
Of late I have also become,
More of a nuisance
Shouting at you, faulting you
For not keeping the house today.

It’s time you changed
Gradually and gracefully
To take care of your
Clothes, book and also kitchen.
I don’t demand any discipline or
Conventional role of a girl at home.
But still, after the marriage of selvi
You have to reign in and manage.

The collapse of the US twin towers,
Continual earth quakes,
Savage violence sweeping across the globe,
Anti globalization riots and demonstration,
World recession and loss of job and market,
Clouds of war gathering over Afghanistan
All are pointers to the grim reality:
There are so many things in life,
We can not control or comprehend
And there’s some karma theory at work
Or even of you are not believer
Certain chain of actions or series
Incidents do occur and impinge on us.
There are always shocks and adjustments to it.
I am not saying, we have to
Meekly submit to it and surrender
World politics functions in mysterious ways

Eventually everything depends on
How do we negotiate, manage
And just live, with all shocks and disturbances.
The need for harmonization with Nature,
Putting a lid on
Indiscriminate industrialization and greed
And making market economics
Work for the poor by the state,
Must gather more force and momentum.

In an age where global capitalism
Has silently killed socialist empires,
We shall inculcate into our heart
The leftist shade, colour and strength
Wishing you all the best
Shiva! My Sakthi! My Child!

(From my dateless Dairy)