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`
I saw,
Early in the morning,
A green leaf,
On a green tree.
The sun wasn’t yet out;
A caterpillar
Nibbled at the leaf’s edge,
The leaf didn’t speak though
A bird
Fluttered,
And hovered round,
It spotted the green caterpillar,
On the green leaf
Of the green tree…

The bird satisfied its hunger
The leaf was still quiet.
`

Pilani, RJ,

November, 2003

Apoptosis

`
Life said, “Let’s kill Mr. Death!”
“I’ll never suicide, dear Mr. Life,
I’m all-powerful, I am too strong,
Hardened by my business” ---
the narrow incandescent eyes glare at Life...
“Ha!” Life smiled aloud,
“You forget, you are naught but my parasite dear,
If need be, I’ll destroy myself to destroy you,
For your methods are most sadistic, cruel,
That make a mockery of my creative genius...”
Death had sprung up,
Utter joy written all over the dark face,
“Characteristic weakness Life, your characteristic weakness,
That you can never overcome,
Self-destruction in the end, what a joke,
To kill me, what a peach of a joke...Ha! Ha! Ha! ...”

[Exeunt]
`

Pilani, RJ,

November, 2003

To Somik on his birthday

`
A mass of men and women
Walk on;
Faces meet, and part,
Strangers grow stranger,
And masks all around...

Here's a friend, and there's a friend,
They hear you, they do not listen,
They see you, they do not observe,
And they're friends...

Thank you God,
I am one of those lucky few --
Someone listens to my unspoken words,
Observes my face beneath painted masks,
Someone knows me inside out,
I am not the strangest in this strange crowd.
`

Pilani, RJ,

November, 2003