Posters Poem by KATOCH P C K PREM

Posters

Life at this moment
not an easy life to live in confusions
to avoid media, papers and posters
in flags, cutting ribbons and buntings
men perform words and invent voices,
not all are fortunate
in building happy homes
among glossy brochures of banks,
dishing out loans on easy terms
and finally mortgaging
lives and homes silently.

Life of a corporate world is doubtful
like drifting down to oblivion
of a girl giving birth to a child and derailing
to live life to an ominous end,
with a man's voice, feet and identity,
where in alertness eagles' eyes
and electronic gadgets evaluate life
its patterns, designs and existence,
computers monitor with defective keyboard
and cryptic mouse in a child's hand.

Explaining subtle meanings to man
of uncertain movements and words
fed in systematic lousy patterns
telling not of a relaxed plan
to be unaware yet clear in vision of future
like wasted seeds of a man
thrown in a desert with shadows and mirages
without hopes of redemption.

(Rainbow at Sixty 2008)