I had this obsession to be the person who submitted the most number of articles in the school magazine. To be frank I rarely succeeded.
It used to start with a notice to submit your writings by a certain date. Then the ruckus at home where I used to pester my dad to give me topics to write an essay (choosing topics was never my thing) and then my sister would interrupt telling "Its your article so you do everything" and my Ma would come from the kitchen telling "He's still a small boy no harm in lending a hand, after all he's just asking for ideas". Finally I would begin to scribble down stuffs most of which doesn't make sense to me but I still have the 100 pages Vidhya notebook with me and I get shocked seeing my handwriting every time I flip the pages.
So this one time when history was current affairs (I read this one liner somewhere and wanted to use it) I wanted to write a poem. A poem to me at that time was using stars, mountains and a little bit of rhyming words. So this was one of the very first. I have modified it over the years slightly making sure that the feel of that high school kid is kept the same.
GOD’S BEST CREATION
What is God’s best creation?
Is the big question.
Answers are a many,
But are they worth a penny.
Is it the towering mountains?
Clouds on them as fountains,
They are indeed, the sign of glory.
Or is it the glittering stars,
Shining with no holds barred,
They are indeed, a sign of hope.
Or is it the flowing oceans?
Kissing the land as it walks,
They are indeed, the sign of life.
Or is it the blazing sun?
With his everlasting shine,
It is indeed, the sign of passion,
Or is it the green forests?
Or is it the fluttering waves?
Or is it the bumming bees?
God’s best creation is God,
God created himself,
We see him through her,
She’s sign of warmth,
She’s sign of love,
She’s sign of everything,
With a twinkle in the eye,
And a smile that makes me fly,
Her tears are a curse to life,
Her words are pillars of hope,
She’s God’s best creation,
She’s the world’s Glitter,
She is my mother.
I guess it sounds a bit childish this one, but of all the things I have written or going to write this is pretty special.
- Sridhar Ramakrishnan
- About me? Thinking about it, describing yourself is such a difficult task and I am puzzled how some guys out there do it so seamlessly. I am what you can call a “Yours Ordinary Programmer” and come from an already overwhelming group of people calling themselves the “IT Guys". So here goes my space mostly with things I don't know why I wrote in the first place. For those who feel it is non-sense thanks for your patience and for those who feel its quite good thanks for sticking your neck out "Be the change you want to see" Cya, Sri
"childish" bcoz you are mother's "kid" always :-)
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