Story of a SLAVE
.........“
i will be like him”, he said one day,
Eyeing the
man in the suit,
“i will
work hard till i have enough paid,
And then i
will follow his route.”
Those
particular words the master did not like,
And already
mad with his demand of a hike,
He caned
him and had him beaten,
But the
dreams he had woven were not to be broken....
Knee-deep
in the pain,
His brain
was all dead,
A daily
plunge into the gorge of hopelessness,
Drove him
utterly insane.
“ i will
buy that car” he said the other day,
Eyeing the
Bentley zooming on its way,
“I will
drive it in the top speed,
And make it
out of this weed”
The master
overheard the boy’s tone,
And saw him
as if he had swallowed a fish bone,
The dream
was the same and so was the result,
The master
had him caned but the dream remained.
“i want to
buy this book” he said one day,
Showing a
book in his hand to his master,
“i want to
study further and be a rich man,
If i be one, then i will gift you this land.”
The master
kicked his butt and shouted at him,
“get lost
you moron, your brain is full of whims,
you are
never gonna be a rich brat,
you were
born into slavery and to this king,
and you rot
in it till death gives you a ring.”
That was
the end and that was the beginning,
That was the
bend he was so keen on hitting.
Now a free
man, he had no masters,
But not a
single day did he forget his blisters,
He made his
own path, Used his tremendous wrath,
To conquer
his dreams, To live a life that he owed to none,
To breathe
the air that he didn’t have to earn.
He shined
like a gem,
And returned
to the master’s helm.....
The master
had grown old and wrinkled,
He saw a
Bentley parking in front of his house,
Thinking
who it might be, he adjusted his specs,
And he
gulped a lump in his throat,
as he saw
the face......
The master
was seeing his procurement,
And in his
hand he held a document,
“If you had
not kicked me then, I would not have fled,
Taking
directions from my dream, i could not have led,
i told i
will gift you this land if you help me,
And here it
is,
Today i am
as rich as i wanted to be.”
PUNYASLOK RATH(27-05-13)
