VERSETILE

Nepotistic Paradise

Now that I am nearing sixty

And life is rapidly and secretly passing away from me

If accounts are to be made about my

performances

Towards my mother-state and fellow friends

I could but say —

That I did the best to them all anyway

Growing old is a delightful journey that I find

And retiring life a perfect dimension for

future of mine

With failing powers and seeping-in infirmities

I pass on the burdens to my fellow brethren

The burdening responsibilities that are to be

Which at all do no more rest upon me

I envily respect the commands of high command

Which evidently cherry-picks those myrmidon

bulls and cows

And mandates them for carting ploughing and milks

I too am frowningly admire those high orders

That destined me to retard and earn a-few-little

Nevertheless with peace of mind and good respite

Now finally have I decided for a peaceful retire

Because I have left this nepotistic paradise

before due date

And am retreating into a larger and grander

life for good..

Ronald S Sangma (Nagrapa)

A song unheard

She’s not an ordinary girl,

She’s beyond extraordinary;

She’s a girl with dreams,

A girl with vision

The world needs to see.

She’s not from Hollywood,

Neither is she from Bollywood;

She comes from a simple state,

A world where dreams are often

Broken rather than made.

A girl with a vision to unite,

Nation with nation to end the fight.

She said, “Maybe, I’m just a little girl

But you know what,

I’m going to change the world!”

She believes that doctor, engineers, officers,

Billionaire and millionaire are not as great as her.

They can only be great if they can celebrate

The pain, yes the pain

That pierces into the eyes of those being hated.

You may ask, “Who have been hated?”

She answered, “Those who uniqueness they crave,

Those who in this earth find no place;

For they believe in the philosophy of

individuality,

And dream of when to set the bird free.”

She’s on a difficult mission,

A mission of living her passion.

Yes, that’s her, a brave little girl,

With a vision that the world

Got a whole lot to embrace.

Naphilakmen Syiemlieh