A War With Negative Forces Poem by Prayash Gupta

When I have time to free myself
From the hustle and bustle
of my rather beautiful monotonous life,
I half-willingly lay down on my couch-
Close my eyes partially that
has genuinely become tired
watching at the harsh realities of the world
and have gradually started
losing its power of Vision,
Wandering tirelessly
in search of better region;
my mind is then attracted by my conscience
that compels me to examine at my inner self.
The moment instead shows me
The vague vision of the bloody war that
is perennial like the evergreen forests
or like the immortal sonnets of Shakespeare.

The thoughts deepens and the vision
of the devastating and ruthless battle that
was fought in the minds of the first human being
becomes more vivid;
The negative forces temporary won the battle
and brought mortality in the world-
The clash continued in the primitive or the stone age-
The time when Man was extremely close to Nature;
Ignorant of materialistic development-
I suppose-
Still stretched its impact in the Middle Ages;
When man was busy to be the owner
of a small pieces of land -
Where they broad- minded to acquire more lands?
Or a narrow minded to possess it at the lives of other
innocent persons?
The answer went along with them-
When they breathed their last
and their bodies actually got mingled with Nature.
Still, it is being fought at the brains of the modern or
post-modern civilized people,
Who are at continuous threat of Earthquake, landslide
or Natural calamities-
Gained at the profit of technological and sophisticated
world;
And the never ending war shall continue
in the near future-in the age of complex complexity
and apex materialization - I suppose.

'Unseen in its existence',
Yet so powerful and mighty
'The horrifying Mental War',
The battlefield that comes along
With the new baby born
Out of Mother's womb.
Unknown and unprepared
about the approaching threat,
the small guest will be lost
in the 'world of innocence',

So naive, fragile and tender
Still untouched by the harsh realities,
Being acquainted to
whatever comes before them -
Whether good or bad
'A short lived paradise', in a simple language,
Carefree from all upcoming responsibilities.
But how long the world of innocence
continues is uncertain
as they have brought along
a battle field with them.

Slowly and unexpectedly,
When the receptive minds
becomes bit mature and
the vision clear-
'A deadly battle' begins
Without drumming its trumpet,
Without challenging- Uncertainly.
The disguised forces comes forcibly
in the world of Innocence.
'The Reason, ' being Commander-in-chief
of the approaching opponent.
Spreads like a slow poison
Trying its level best to slaughter
Innocence in a disguised form.

Carrying the powerful sword of 'Doubt'-
It strikes at the minds of all-individual
In the transitional phase from innocence to experience,
Doubt increases so the battle intensifies;
'Hope' the chief positive force
finally comes forward with his
mighty sword 'Faith'.

The positive general attacks Reason
with his sword- faith
and controls over battlefield
for a certain point of time
While Reason attacks Hope by Doubt,
And becomes powerful in due time.
Both the generals
and the swords are powerful,
but is seemed like
the battle would never cease,
In the millions and billions of battles
Only thousands and thousands would end
When not the armies but the battlefield,
itself would disappear;
but again reappears at the same moment
when double the death gets birth;
making the war never ending on this Earth.
The time comes when Hope will have
Partial-full control over Doubt,
Hoping against hope
of the better tomorrow.
But till then Innocence is killed
by the hypocrite Reason.
The positive forces becomes weak
But still Hope continues the battle.
Again 'Fear', the powerful knight
comes in the battlefield.
It tries to make Hope extremely weak
by attacking him by the realities of life.
Innocence being killed by the Reason,
Being forward the image of Death,
Which strikes man with the realities
Of mortal life.


'Horrifying and terrifying' reality
Challenges Hope every now and then.
Faith tries to counteract with Fear
With the help of Religion,
The medium that shows
the right way of life and tries
its level best to keep Hope alive;
But again the so call witty reason
Tries to play a game with religion,
It forces some person to do politics
in its name-
Some innocent ones are fooled
as they are given fake consolations
of life after life,
Without any actual self-realization.
The war is intensified and is fought
In the different parts of the world.
Faith again counteracts with Reason
With the help of Hope that
'Good deeds will surely assure
Good after life'
After life being unknown,
Is controlled by negative forces
for some time.
Again opponent warrior 'Sorrow'
comes in, with its sword 'Inequality',
Negative becomes stronger
When inequality strikes the mind of a man.
A handful of them extremely rich,
While majority poor-
Starving for food and existence,
And 'Darwin's theory'
'Survival of the fittest'
becomes apt for the majority.

It emerges as a powerful knight
When it shows the disparity
in social status, caste and creed,
The position of positive armies
Becomes extremely weak and feeble;

Just then Philosophy enters the battlefield
And tries to make their position stronger,
He consoles the positive armies by saying that
'Inequality is world's reality'

The world of equality is just an imagination,
Philosophy boost the morale of his fellow men
And the battle continues…
'Separation' comes as another important
Knight in the negative side,
It too becomes powerful by separating
Conscience from the heart,
making it available only to mind;
separating man from their
near and dear ones.
Again philosophy tries to manage the situation
By making his team mates aware that
Separation is yet another reality of life.
The battle continues…
Negative force tries to corrupt the mind,
While positive counteracts with it.
Now, failure comes in the battlefield
Which further intensifies the war.
Failure is disguised in the mask
Of Success,
Success a tool that
Easily played with the positive thoughts.

It introduces an endless chase
for money, social status
And inclined towards the materialistic world
Which really changes the color
of the battlefield.
It even tries to hypnotize Hope
By its power of attraction,
It forced people to run after it
Like a mad man demanding
his dead wife to be alive again.
Success uses its greatest Sword
'Materialism' that tries to slaughter
All the armies of positive side.
The lust for money continued
that made the mind corrupted,
Forced people to be a murderer,
Engaging themselves in corruption
Where truth becomes lie
And lie truth,
It made negative side
a positive warrior
The idealistic world of
peace, equality and humanity
is thus supplemented by the
realistic world of
inequality, chaos and inhuman activities.
Success makes magical spell
Over positive side by showing
them the realities of life.
Even Hope is hypnotized
By the hope itself,
In the hope of better
Future and successful life.


Where success counted at the
Competition of others and
Materialistic achievement but
Not on the self achievement and
Inner satisfaction.
Futile run after never ending Success
Introduced 'Stress' and 'Anxiety'
in the scene.
Stress plays the vital role
In weakening the positive forces,
While anxiety tries to disintegrate
The faith by making it helpless.
All the positive forces
Are lying on the ground
Of the battlefield
In the next to surrender situation,
Almost killing man of
His identity and existence.
The Negative forces are about
To blow the trumpet of their victory
While Hope and its army have lost
All its strength and faith.
The war is almost over……..

Just then a bright ray of light
Comes from the Horizon,
Everyone in the battlefield
is attracted to it
deep at a distance
they could see a white horse
and a warrior riding on it.
Finally, when the warrior is identified



Negative forces changes their
Facial expression
While positive tries to smile
Even at the moment of their defeat.
The greatest force 'Spirituality'
Finally arrives at the battlefield
The reason and its army steps aside.
Spirituality, at first, tries to give
A new life to Hope by making
Him to think beyond the
Narrow mindedness of human-mind,
And beyond Success and Failure
Life or Death.
Hope is strengthened and
Again Faith is waked up.
Positive forces now becomes
Powerful when Spirituality
Finally arrives on its side.

Negative force capitalizes
The situation and gets united
For the last battle.
Reason, doubt, anxiety, stress
Failure, success, materialism
Combines itself into one
And comes for the deadly attack.
Spirituality with its deadly weapon-
Faith chops the negative forces
Into small pieces,
And is thrown in the different
Parts of the Universe.
Some of which were lying
In the deep Pacific,


In the forest of the Himalayas,
In Kalahari Desert and
in the arctic region.
The positive forces has total
Control over the battlefield,
With only the few negative pieces
Lying shattered on the ground;
Still the broken negative pieces
Comes to challenge the positive force
But is easily defeated by them;
Positive forces occupies
The battlefield but still
The negative pieces came time to time
To challenge the positive
And the battle continues………..