These young people today, I tell you, Always on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. Everyday they are changing their picture One time, two times three times. Why? They have only one face, no? They are also not saying anything properly Nowadays everything is 140 characters as if all life is lived in telegrams. And what is this putting # in front of Everything? Making for bad reading only. And no grammar: no comma, no full stop. Arre baba, they are sending message on WhatsApp and I am understanding :-) But what is :-8? and what is <3? Less than 3 is 2 or 1. But what is I<3U? And there is this thing called Instagram Where they are putting photos of what they ate. Arre, if your mummy finds out that you ate Costly, costly pizza instead of home-made Chapati-bhaji what she will say? Neighbour's boy - engineeering graduate, Good job, good home -showed me to use YouTube on phone. Very good thing YouTube. Have you seen the video of cat playing piano? Or the ca...
The message is supreme;
Born in the heart,
and lilting itself
from tongue to tongue,
throwing its scent
over wind and wave;
travelling on dots
or fingers
when blindness
or silence bar its way.
It hews itself into stone
or burns itself onto magnetic discs;
it is the message that lives
and I exist
solely to pass it on.