The worst thing

[nikhilparekh]

The worst thing that could have happened to a fish;
was that it fell innocently in the midst of the
sweltering desert instead of slithering voluptuously
in its tank,

The worst thing that could have happened to a
cockroach; was that it found itself perched at the top
of a kingly throne; instead of feasting its tentacles
on the foul smell of the lavatory,

The worst thing that could have happened to a loaded
gun; was that it found itself hurled right into the
heart of the salty sea; instead of firing a pugnacious
volley of bullets,

The worst thing that could have happened to a cow; was
that it was placed in an ambience engulfed with rotten
garbage; instead of wandering blissfully on the
pristine and green slopes,

The worst thing that could have happened to a tongue;
was that it was dipped mercilessly into fuming water;
instead of sipping delectable pints of herbal tea,

The worst thing that could have happened to a bee; was
that it was compelled to swim in a pond replete with
saliva; instead of boisterously evolving gallons of
sweet honey in its hive,

The worst thing that could have happened to a soldier;
was that he was stationed to feed new born children;
instead of fighting valiantly in the battlefield of
war,

The worst thing that could have happened to a cloud;
that it was brutally dissipated by invidious space
crafts; instead of coalescing into a dense
conglomerate; and showering tantalizing droplets of
rain,

The worst thing that could have happened to an
eyeball; was getting exposed to a field of acrimonious
thorns; instead of imparting it with an incessant
stream of revitalizing moisture,

The worst thing that could have happened to a golden
ring; was that it was gruesomely dumped several feet
beneath the earth; instead of scintillating
magnificently under pearly rays of the majestic moon,

The worst thing that could have happened to a priest;
was drifting inevitably towards salacious desires;
instead of inexorably drowning the mind, body and
soul; in the service of Almighty Lord,

The worst thing that could have happened to the feet;
was to walk on blistering embers of fire; instead of
stepping on a carpet of flocculent silk and Persian
wool,

The worst thing that could have happened to a slab of
ice; was being kept on the fire sizzling full
throttle; instead of basking away in the interiors of
the glorious refrigerator,

The worst thing that could have happened to a
building; was that it was constructed in the zone of
the devastating earthquake; instead of standing tall
and fortified on chunks of healthy soil,

The worst thing that could have happened to the
gargantuan bubble of soap; was that it was pierced a
few seconds after it rose; instead of swelling
profoundly and proliferating many other of its kind in
the atmosphere,
The worst thing that could have happened to a child;
was to get orphaned as soon as he took birth; instead
of frolicking merrily in the arms of his mother,

The worst thing that could have happened to seasoned
sticks of firewood; was bearing the brunt of
unrelenting rain and culminate into a rot; instead of
igniting into crackling flames in the starry night,

The worst thing that could have happened to a car; was
stuttering every minute while clambering up the hills;
instead of whizzing through the mystical lanes of the
valley at kingly speeds,

The worst thing that could have happened to a
contemporary watch; was to stop ticking; instead of
accurately depicting time every unfurling second of
the day,

And the worst thing that could have happened to me
was; sitting like a moron in the office; browsing
through a labyrinth of bulky files and papers; instead
of gallivanting on the hills with my beloved; and
simultaneously penning down emphatically enchanting
lines of poetry…



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