THINK BEFORE YOU SPLURGE, a poem from Samita CHATTOPADHYAY (India).

You fuddled soul!

Are you inebriated?

Why have you become inert

Slack

Slothful?

Why aren’t you coming out of your languor?

Is this torpor ineludible?

And you fuddy-duddy

Old fogey?

You are all stick-in-the-mud

Barbaric square

Stuffed shirt.

You don’t know

How the frozen froth of forestalling

One day can create carnage…

On that black day of holocaust,

You’ll not be able to escape…

Even carcasses will demand an answer…

Carouse…

Have a ball…

Raise the roof

Go on the town

Paint the town red…

But ponder for a while

Before you go on a binge…

Samita CHATTOPADHYAY