Different Wants

Chugging along tough, earth beaten road
Of uneven terrains, fortified rough edges
Ceaseless sweat flows, sore rump encroach
Dripping along sideburns, hairs as ledges

Acute legs ache, mind racing back and forth
Different contemplations, gasping for air
The only thought that prevails, immediate halts
Catch our breath, we just want fresh air

Finally breaths in rhythm, feeling the thirst
We crave a cold drink of the purest water
Thirst quenched, gnaw the full fury of acid
Gut walls buckling, we hawked a food platter

Bowel becalms draws awareness, our body
Aching sore muscles, especially those calves
Resolute mind versus stitching body
Call it a day and be damned a coward

As we debate, wrestle and pray, it dawn upon
Finesse withstanding how much you want that wins
It is the hunger for success, zeal to hang on
Price of will, perhaps the wisdom to read the wind

Winners takes all manta from infant we were taught
Fittest or adaptable survives in youth we learnt
In middle age, have you given enough thoughts?
By twilight do you still want to, did you learn?

This game of life may be right
May be the best within our grasps
Are you on the right track?
Who draws the line for your clasps?

On the journey of life we traverse the time on earth
Of what you want and need to live, a life-style
Bombarded daily, purveyors of life comforts,
Sanctuaries, glitters and glamour to live life-in-style

Cradle to grave, we imbibed our needs
Discover to our dismay the plethora-well of wants
Abysses we skirt daily, peak after peak
We ascend manually, yet there is more that we want

Erudite and barbaric alike are taken for a ride,
Reaching their incompetence, meeting their match
Predator’s price is the victim or provides the bite
It is never to find but to hide from their match

Succumbs to tempts and greed, our fellow exploits
Unscrupulously the FUD so deceitfully sowed
Trudging ourselves into cycle of fears and loathes,
Eternal uncertainty, doubtful sanity, our wants grow

Preying and scavenging our Mother earth,
Ingrates chosen livelihood, faith accompli
Values and faith sometimes is the only savior,
Our lonely birth and life-journey unaccompanied

Seek as you may, the guide, the path, glistening
The way, the sanctuary; paradise, heaven
Temple in you could yet be the most enlightening
Place for solace and bliss; your own haven