I’m mounting a stairway
Don’t know it goes which way
Don’t know where’s the roof
Don’t know if it’s all a spoof.
Whenever I reach a new floor
There opens a door
One peeps out and looks down
I suppose he counts
The number of floors
I’ve climbed
Why does he gaze like that?
He misses them?
Wants to go to them?
Wants to chat or what?
Ahem!
I look up
Count the rest
I wanna go up
But have to rest
While he peeps.
Can’t he leave me alone?
Looks like my own clone.
When will I know he’s not a spoof?
When will I reach the roofless roof ?
When will I stand at it’s brink?
When will I face the final kink?
When will I hug the halcyon wind ?
When will I break the strongest bind ?
When will I juggle the bolts and clouds ?
When will I juggle the seasons?
When will I juggle the droughts and floods?
When will I know the reasons?
When will I clear the dust?
And make the globe clean.
When will I paint the entire globe?
Only with a color that’s green.
When will I halt its spring of fears ?
When will I sponge its tears ?
When will I deny gravity ?
When will raindrops’ birth
quench the fire of the hearth?
When will I smack the rainbow sky ?
I will at last , won’t I ?
When will I get a room?
Where there’s untold room.
Room for all but violence.
Where walls are made of fragrance.
When will I be classless ?
When will I be stateless ?
When will I be free?
When will I decide-
How it all must be?
When will I sort the letters as I wish to see?
Suppose I want to write “P” before “B”.
When will I empty the golden cages?
Then fill them up with rotten rages.
When will the world be woven of humanity?
She will at last , won’t she ?
I reach the roof everytime I sleep.
But I’ve to creep
Or else
It might end the s l e e p.
--SDG
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