Who is to say, what’s right
What’s not
For a body-builder
Carbohydrates are rot
For a commercial sex worker
Legality rocks
For a saint or a priest (barring the ones who are pedophiles)
It just plain old shocks
For the doc - euthanasia’s right
To end a coma too long
For the patient’s wife
It’s a life taken wrong
For a business man
IPL is huge money & fame
For a true cricket fan
It’s the end of the game
For lovers intense and young
The world will not matter
But when there’s no bread in the bin
Will not love - shatter?
The believer has his faith
Faith is a strong teacher
For the science man, the atheist
Reason’s above any fictional preacher
And for a king in days of yore
Twas duty to plunder & maraud
So, my friends, who is to really say
What is even, and what is odd?
7 comments:
Good poem. especially liked the one on ipl and love..
And a powerful principle of life. There is no right or wrong; good or bad; context reigns supreme. If only we can accept this then life would become so much easier.
Subjectivity rules.
Or in short, our 2-year MBA brains at work: "it depends" :)
excellent work shreya prakash! the way it has been written is very attractive :)
:) I am not good with poetry..some silly stuff usually comes out, like this one :)
@Mani - Those are my fav stanzas too
@Georgy - Subjectivity dsnt always rule, but it's there..what to do :)
@Kavitha - What's with Ivak??
Beautiful ! Total agreer !
There's one I would like to add...the grey area (or not so grey area as some might view it ;) of morality - especially in relationships. Sometimes, its not just bread than is a hindrance to love, but the lovers themselves - either one or both of them. I am not referring to just physical adultery here...even "a perfectly valid" reason to end a relationship can be an "immoral" act; or beautiful relationships can stem from a seed that was "immoral".
Immoral within quotes - because therein lies the "whats immoral" question ! The question is a rhetoric indeed.
@shreya: ivak is jus kavi man.. a name i took on when i was not at my creative imaginative best or better still.. wen i had not yet met shreya prakash and had some training :D
@Deepa - Yeah, immoral can have various definitions. For the Mormons, sleeping around may not be immoral, perhaps falling in love with another is?
@Ivak - Man, I am the one with no imagination. I should have detected at a glance that 'Ivak' was the palindrome for 'Kavi' :)
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