Suma Mandalapu

To those in utter penury

And to those in obvious fame

Oh yes! Life goes on just the same

 

All roam in crowded streets

All watch ahead and have plenty meets

Some take the laborious road

Some forever are lost in a joyous mode

But once in a while

Somethings grip our heart

Pull it down and give us the blues

We fight, we struggle, to resist, to avoid

And to emerge out …to rise above

These very disturbing hues…

 

Time’s like these

A babe’s innocent eyes

And it’s guileless smile

Is enough to lift one’s soul

Enough to remake it

Put it back together…

Together as a whole…

 

One look at the infinite sky

Will remind one of the Almighty high

And the burdened spirit thus be set free

All the knowledge and all the wisdom gained is but to see

Life’s quest to find this lost key

 

And thus as the sun sets behind

the canopy of mighty trees

As dusk takes over the day

Each shall sleep, each shall rest

The poor in the wretchedness

The rich in their gilded beds

The unknown in the dark

A few safe in their lurk

 

But each shall dream

Some of wicked pleasure,

Some of vileless joys

Because there’s always a tomorrow

To look forward to…

Because everyone has a future…

A future…that is their own…

That is theirs alone…

 

Oh! Life goes on the same

The enlightened shall see the truth;

The truth being their salvation

The blinded many shall be lost in their lives

Netted and caught

In a vortex of nothing and naught

But, Oh yes! Life goes on…

Life goes on the same…