A Life And Punctuation... Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

Like a sentence a life too needs punctuation.
Short or long life that ends with an exclamation mark
may not induce that much exclamation in others.
And a life that ends up with a snake like question mark
excites so many bitter or bizarre questions in the readers.
A life that has many commas gives a sense of a sloth like journey
that suffers too many halts and often some meaningless pauses.
A confused life or maybe very wise takes a sombre semi-colon
and the following part points out the elder incomplete one.
Again there are so many parts subsequent to each other
that go on like a sequel in a back-to-back bag of hours.
A life that wears a long respite colon largely rests with
the readers to discover an empty or full box of treasure.
A life within double inverted commas seems to be borrowed one.
Others may stress a life with a pair of single inverted ones.
And a life within the first bracket proves just a lame life.
A modern life wears never that many jewellery of marks
as one used to have at the time the old great Chaucer.
A life looks smart with the fewer the better marks.
A life that comes to an end with a final period is ever great.