There Was A Time (poem) by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet on AuthorsDen

There Was A Time
by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet → (All Poetry by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet)
Sunday, March 20, 2016 Rated "G" by the Author.

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There was a time when i bludgeoned people with my rock iron fists, now i didn't even have the vigor to raise my hands. there was time when i drove my car at swashbuckling speeds, now my legs quivered at mentions of automobile travel. there was a time when drank barrels of beer with unprecedented gusto, now i refrained from drinking even salted water. there was a time when i cast frivolous glances at young maidens, now i withdrew miles away from the faintest shadow of females. there was a time when i clambered up the hill with robust spurts of euphoria, now i stood at the base and admired the honey golden Sun; tumbling drops of rain. there was a time when i chewed vicious petals of raw tobacco, now i confined myself to a bland soup of banana curry. there was a time when i shouted on the streets creating utter pandemonium, now i talked in subtle whispers with my spouse; in imprisoned interiors of our home. there was a time when i gnawed my teeth in the brittle body of sugarcane, now i satisfied myself with frigid chunks of sour milk cream. there was a time when i bathed in an avalanche of freezing water; beneath the mountain spring, now i meticulously poured minuscule tumblers of hot water on my persona. there was a time wrote sedulously; infinite lines of poignant literature, now i dictated lethargic notes for my assistants to scribble down. there was a time when i indulged in rambunctious brawls with my rivals, now i begged them for perennial harmony with folded hands. there was a time when there when i bore a thick shock of curly hair on my scalp, now they had been replaced by frugal fibers of deathly white projecting timidly. there was a time when i spotted oblivious outlines of bird in the sky, now i wore high powered glass to distinguish my children. there was a time when I dismantled rocks that came my way, now I was petrified to even tread on ants that trespassed the floor. There was a time when I sobbed at the slightest of provocation, Now I stared in tranquil contentment even when ridiculed to bizarre limits. There was a time when I laughed incessantly all Sunlit day, Now I groped for inexplicably for profound reasons to smile. There was a time when I romanticized wading through choppy waves of the ocean, Now I perceived loads of gratification; sitting abreast my innocent siblings. That was decades when I was bubbling in the zeal of youth, Whilst now I lay shriveled; discarded as a disdainful liability; in the form of an grizzly hair man.