I sit in class

With my eyes half closed,

With exhaustion that lasts hours,

And waiting to fall asleep.

Voices and sounds,

Here there and everywhere,

Of people doing their rounds

And of birds chirping away.

The teacher keeps talking,

I finally fall asleep.

On a lonely beach I walk

Wondering what I’ll face.

The breeze blows through my hair.

The air smells salty.

The sea looks calm.

There’s a ship I see sailing.

I can hear people shouting.

There seems to be chaos.

And suddenly the bell rings

And I wake up startled.

I Bubblegum

I pondered over what I was going to face

In this bubblegum life that seemed like a race

I came in a beautiful little case

With my fellow brothers

Worried about the pace

At which we were running our race.

I knew one from my brotherhood

Who smiled as much as he could

And gave me courage like no one would

Till one day

All that remained of him as I could

Have imagined, was him, lying dead like a shapeless mould.

A shapeless mould of lifeless bubblegum

Without the juice that made humans hum

In satisfaction; the luckless gum

Who was stretched

Like the membrane of a drum

And looked fragile like the skin of a plum.

I now accept my fate

Short-lived as I will be. My date

With the commotion and brouhaha in a plate;

In the dingy place of torment

Where the death of my mate

My brother, troubles me till date.