With Time Enough Poem by RAJ NANDY

WITH TIME ENOUGH


Our astronomers predict, that our eternal
sun,
Will last, only for a billion years more!
When its helium will get all burnt out;
To get transformed into a giant red dwarf,
Extinguishing all life on earth!
Bringing an end to this celestial show!


But perhaps by then,
The indomitable spirit of survival in man,
Would have colonised other planets and
stars,
Having transformed into some better evolved
super human form,
Will continue to inhabit some distant corner
of space and time!

As for me, a fragile mortal of three
dimensional kind,
A billion years is like eternity;
It is no longer illusory, but a reality!
Since I live in milestone years, in
bonzied time;
And yet like the butterfly, have time
enough,
To dance and sing and have my fling,
And write out my will, on the blooming
buds of spring!

- Raj Nandy
New Delhi
25 Mar 08