A Journey of Comparisons

Dear friend 

let me take you for a weird journey 

a bumpy ride 

a long-winding flurry

of steps, stops and turns

. 

we'll start by looking up above

for the earth is covered with a descending darkness  

but within the open night sky 

is a Doorway

shining from the heavens

. 

so come let us ascend

firmaments 

one laid upon another

like screens

to view a million worlds

. 

have I told you of the wonders

of The Twinklings

so small and tiny, these shiny little things

that dwarf, our haughty sun

obliviously residing in Milk's abode

. 

spots, tiny specks upon my palm 

I squint to catch a glimpse of one 

the giant moon collector

he sends me a postcard 

signed: from jupiter, with luv

that great happy celestial 

with harem of 79 and counting 

. 

Yet on edge of horizon, Andromeda awaits 

jaws wide open, ready to swallow 

like a black hole, gaping

so I shrank to the safety of my spacy shell

like that of mighty Acmella nana 

invisible as a spider's nest 

world's within a world, beyond compare 

. 

yet after the first firmament

lies a vastness beyond imagination 

a million worlds 

beckoning and scrambling 

pleading, for my audience 

restless, I cannot resist 

so I succumb 

. 

into cosmos I escape

where thoughts reign supreme 

every idea a galaxy

pockets of possibilities 

every notion orbiting 

pooled into gravitation of mind 

some like floating clouds, while others make you browse 

. 

exhausted, I throw in towels 

not one, but as many

to douse the tension of Armageddon that brews

for I had since heard the drumbeat from afar

when Aristotle was a young lad

. 

the Clash inevitable in this arena

for where currency of thought is traded

you are bound to face Book 

that unlucky villain 

who slaughtered the scoundrel: Ignorance 

not knowing it, was a fat cat 

that plays not fair 

. 

so despite creating an information universe 

we have failed to stop 

the return of the nine-lived one 

whose Second-coming 

is as Data Overlord 

. 

viral deluge daily spreads

till finally it will bury

reason, sanity and clarity

all will be lost to the Beast 

one bite and you will be zombified 

. 

so please! once again I plead 

come, let us escape 

into embrace of Education

our journey's end is not now

we must keep moving towards this shining 

perchance it will illumine a new path  

so that we survive to fight another day. 

. 

Haidarwali 201811160843hrs