A Wilderness of Desires and Needs
Kheemchand Koli
A man is mere a bubble of blooming desires
And the needs nudging him to fare through the life's span
From the infancy's first cry to landing into the last repose
He scrambles to attain the scattered lot
And the needs large and small to satisfy him
His pool of desires proliferates with passage of time
As he keeps narrowing his needs.
As a child, he craves for motherly care
Love and affection from all loved ones
Simple needs all met at once
With growth, widens that pool
Simple joys and friends many to make
Peer pressure keep creeping in callow nerves
He feels the flickers of fashionÂ
His needs blooms into desires vast and varied
As the maturity makes way to him
Luxury wraps him her lap
He finds himself lost in the swamp of desires and needs
Wandering in the wilderness of desiresÂ
His every venture to meet material desires strips him of emotional desiresÂ
So does his pursuit of emotional desires
Until the riddle of desires gets resolved
He is made mere a plaything in the pool of desires.
Kheemchand Koli is a poet from India.
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