Evolution to Extinction

To all my well-wishers, my gratitude for putting up with me year after year, and once again on the one which has begun staggeringly, uncertainly:


life is
moments of disarray
living it
at best is capricious

one, alone
in the city, earth
all the time - day, night
seeks meaning of life, truth --

these paths
which are longer
than any lifetime
have never been seen
any destination to reach

darker than moonless night
the well of life
draws smoke
instead of tears
from his unsheltered eyes

one, alone
has lived many lifetimes
and ONE MORE YEAR
let slip through his fingers
timeless sands
of meaningless, lies

now without reason to live
and inability to die
counts every passing moment
as a year backward
and instead of the truth
yearns only just to know
how long
onealone

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Humbly, and full of gratitude, thanks to


Reena Patel
Urmi Gandhi
Kirit Sanghvi 
Pradeep J Soni
Rita Lal
Pratima Gandhi
Shakuntala HV
Arijit Chaudhury
Kiran Bhatt
Subhasish Bose
Sonal Ganatra
Shyla Shanker
Hemantha Kumar Pamarthy 
Pravin Gandhi
Meher
Kushnawaz Ahmed Dar
Mamta Bhatt
Mukesh Soni
Aashutosh Namdeo
Jyoti Gandhi 
DrTaralika Trivedi 
SN Bhatt
Kashmira Soni
Devyani Gandhi
Dhananjay S Bhatt 
Pathma Raj 
Pixy Mukherjee 
Kirtida Gandhi
Utkarsh Majmudar
Minu Sanghavi
Purvi Goradia
Sanjay Gandhi 
Mahendra Dadha
Dipti Ranpura
Ramanidharan Ramaswamy
Shiva Kumar
Vivekanandan Vivi
Janak Mehta
Kanan Mehta
Hemant Manek
Dr. Ranjan Mistry Pratap
Moyna Manku
Vivek Syal
Fathima Sharafath
Ranjit Menon
Deepak Nair
Ness and Perin Pesikaka



Seeking forgiveness, for omissions above, and altogether generally.