THE GENDER IMBALANCE
If you go to anywhere,.
You find men and men
And few women
Are they really small in number ?
No, they are forced within
The four walls
Now 'thankfully',
Homes have lost two walls
And roof too is cracked
And we can see the eternal prisoners
Enjoying sunbath and fresh air
On the outskirts of the darker times
Men supply the shortages
Of female colleagues
With a powerful dose
Of imagination.
Which mind is free
From feminine fantasies?
If both the sexes had got
Equal opportunities,
Civilization would have
Fared (faired)better,
Than limping on one leg
The other tied with apron-strings.
They are neither weaker
Nor dependent on men,
Having endured untold suffering
They have proved their steadfastness
It is time to decide new mores
So that the balance is restored
Forget it only at your peril
For every boy, a girl is born
Somewhere in the world
No human crook can belie
Gods' sense of balance
Which we men both deny and defy.
Jernail S Aanand
2.CONTENDING WITH GODS
We are very selfish by nature
And gods are well aware
Of our penchant
For loud announcements
Of our achievements
However mean.
Gods don't take us seriously
And we often find them
In a state of indifference
Unlistening to our demands
And unresponsive to our cries
And even our prayers
The reason is simple
We never go to gods to tell them
What good we have done.
Generally we are not inclined
To do good,
No University teaches us so,
And whenever we go to gods
We are always supplicating, praying
Bowing our heads, and weeping
Give me this, give me that
And gods wonder
If they have created a race of eternal beggars.
Why men can't keep their heads uplifted
Instead of their hands in prayer?
Gods feel sorry
Their men are still mentally retarded
And don't realise
We have nothing to give them.
Daily they go to malls
Pay, and get the things they require.
And at home, they sit on the dining table
And eat, what they have cooked
Things are as simple as that.
You get in life too what you have cooked.
We are eternal Observers of Almighty.
The Custodians of good and evil,
And ensure every man is served
What he has cooked,
From the beginning to date.
They are smart if they call it Fate.
Jernail S Aanand
3. STRANGE LOGIC
A Univ of Law has as its syllabus
The study of the Penal code.
And Univ of Wisdom
Teaches wisdom by defining Folly.
The rich know what is poverty
And the poor, what is riches.
Life when asked what it is
Invited Death to define it
And the University of Love
Taught what was Hate.
Study of the elements of disintegration.
Is a must in order to stay intact.
Existence can not be defined
Except by juxtaposition with Non-existence.
The binaries shock us when we see
It is the impulse which creates the thoughts.
We do not think of water,
Until we feel we are thirsty.
And when we need coffee,
It is its lack in our blood which dictates us
We remember friends in times of need.
And gods when placed in distress.
Jernail S Aanand
4. UFO
I have never seen myself
Is the image
That I see in the mirror ME?
Why I can't see my self
Why I can't know my self
Am I alien to my self
I wonder and am intrigued
Things that gods keep away
Tempt me
I am an unknown entity
Unseen UFO
So self possessed still.
I have yet to determine for sure
Where I live?
Is it is in this figurine?
Do I dwell in my eyes?
Or in my brain?
Or in these procreative organs?
People tell me I am tallish
I am wheatish
And in nature lambish or wolfish
I am a script which
Only others can read,
And interpret at will.
Am I am illusion?
A dry fact
Or a lilting fiction?
I wonder how gods will react
When I land back
After my prospecting on earth.
Jernail S Aanand
BIO
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is an Honorary Member of the Association of Serbian Writers. He is Prof Emeritus in Indian Literature at The European Institute of the Roma Studies and Research Belgrade. Dr Anand has authored more than 150 books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, spirituality and philosophy. He is credited with the theory of Biotext in critical theory. His work has been translated into more than twenty world languages. Author of 9 epics which are regarded as modern classics, Anand has organized 4 International Literary Conferences, latest of them, in Chandigarh. He was conferred Franz Kafka Laureateship 2022 and International Aco Karamanov Poetry Award 2022 (Mecedonia Northern.skopja)
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