Vijay Kumar Shrotryia

Reprise

After umpteen efforts

to reconcile and reboot

the (in)human system,

with an expectation

of better tomorrow

and to set the things right

with the ‘may be’ biased

and believed reality,

my altered ego began to burst

and crumble

before silly arguments

and the future

instead of getting better

started to worsen.

Rebooting at times

doesn’t help treat viruses.

Positive efforts at times

boomerang

and culminate into

unexpected outcomes.

Reprising doesn’t help

when uprising alarms

and poorly designed dogmas

get into

renditioning panagyric hymes.

All the crumblings connive

and portray palpable perfidy,

ill intentioned effervescence,

and inchoately sounding tunes

for the dumb ears

and for them

who had invested the fortune

for poorly priced return.

Self-satisfying reprise,

of the self,

for the self,

by the self.