Time flies

"Time flies on restless pinion.. With unimaginable speed"  ~Friedrich Schiller

From few days back I've been reading Indian history and eventually I realized that time travels with a great speed. Its like a flick of a second and a full series of events occur in the whole world. Single human life looks like a speck when compared to the rich, diverse and highly colored history of mankind. Historians say earth is just few years old and this forged an idea in my mind that time just flies. Time can act as a great teacher in our lives. We can learn a lot from our past. It teaches us numerous tricks to excel in the events ahead.

With nay anticipations 

events betides on the life scale. 

When you look back

they are mere

anecdotes or 

nanny's tales.

Time flies with turbo-speed.

You gaze that tree

from your window

which was once a seed.

Life is short 

smithereens of Kalpa.

It's just few years back 

When we were 

natives of Harappa. 

Mouryans flourishing.

A new culture, new era 

to partake. 

Buddha delivering speech 

Making us awake.

Guiding, to realize our 

sins and mistakes. 

Ashoka the Great

Jack of all trades. 

He was crowned sometimes back.

From the acumen of Akbar

Even "great" ones

were taken aback. 

Ohhhh, for few days 

misfortune was profound.

Shackled and slaved 

every Indian was found. 

We fought a long battle 

In minds, as well as on grounds. 

And the day came

when world was astound.

India was free 

gaiety and happiness 

all round.

Time flies, without making a sound. 

A venerable teacher 

for intellective unbound. 
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समय
http://hindiscribbles.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_3886.html 
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Independent, Free But "SLAVES"

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

On 15 Aug we celebrated our Independence Day and country is in a mood of furor. We all talking corruption, freedom of speech, expression, protests blah, blah... 

But real freedom is freedom of thought. Free from biases, prejudices and here we are still chained and doomed. Slaves of misery, differences, ego, attitudes. 

This post deals with such conflicts of Freedom. 
We all are damn good finger-pointers always have a finger ready to point at others.

Freedom, from all bounds
roam around
roar like a lion
fly like a bird
move, run, play
in happiest surrounds.

Everyone speaks,
defines freedom
in its own
philosophical way.
Freedom, is what
we demand, we pray.

But we are still slaved
independent, free slaves

Slaves of "What others will say ??"
We fight non-stop for array
of decorum, of status
chicanery Display
But We still say..
We are free
We are masters
We direct our plays.

Slaves of "Ego"
which burns, runs
in our nerves n veins
Its so painful to see
others happy
It gives goosebumps
and it haunts as moral strains. 

Slaves of "Desires"
borne in our brains.
Makes us, inhuman pleasure-seekers
when We forget others
their plight, their dire conditions
deep drowned
in only our own selfish aspirations.

Slaves of "Fashion"
in mysterious ways
polluting, adulterating
our attitudes
speech, attire
our gallants n parades.
and we are proud
of this slavery
flaunt it
at every corner
in every possible ways.

Slaves of "Money"
for which sometimes
filthy, dirty tricks we play
to satisfy our
never-ending thirst
of power and display.
yet we never have
sense of malefaction,
transgression or dismay.

Apparently
We are independent, free Slaves :P
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स्वतंत्र, मुक्त परन्तु कैद 
http://hindiscribbles.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-post_15.html 
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