Alone and Awake

I see the world drowning in an ocean of mediocrity

Man has successfully tarnished everything he can with utmost alacrity

Food is adulterated and Love is contaminated

Greatness extinct and Innovation endangered

A Man is raised to Martyr’s status just for doing his job

I questioned why? They called me “Arrogant” snob

Charity extended to the lazy slobs of the street

And I said I won’t join, Then they called me a Heartless Beast

Thousands of people turning into dung beetles

Feeding on the dirt, altering into mindless weasels

Adding one to their troop daily, in the name of “The greater good”

Nagging me to join them, in their cheap celebrations of sainthood

“It’s not cheating if it’s helping the man pass his test

It’s not wrong if it’s helping the man lead a better life” a wise guy professed

Argued I “Elevating the average ones to higher stature in the name of equality,

Giving them worth that they don’t deserve is a complete debauchery

Let an able man struggle on his own to reach his heights.

Don’t let the people feed on the brains of intellectuals like parasites

Let the quality of mind be elevated, not their unending greed

Let them not shrivel into a sniveling crowd of human breed

Mediocrity is strengthening it’s grip, as Quality of life is going to dust

Friendship based on give and take…Love based on nothing but lust

Let us not just be voyeurs, standing still, let us start again, and learn about Humanity

Walk with me and we’ll rewrite our future together, that’s heading towards calamity”

I took a step forward and I saw that nobody even tried

I looked at them longingly once again but no one came to my side

I sighed and walked, the sound of soil under my sole feet was like a whip lash

For I was alone in this fight, to clean the invisible barbaric trash

The angst of seeing a good entity not being respected

While the poor one being applauded and treasured

An ordinary thing winning over the inexplicable beauty of greatness

Is too much of a pain to gulp down one’s throat without feeling any vainness

I toss and turn in my self inflicted sleep deprivation

Fighting the new challenging ways of degradation

Searching for undiscovered cures for this Prodigal Humiliation

Lying awake, just to find a solution to annihilate this abomination

 Failure after failure…falling in to the pit of darkness

And making myself rise again fencing every weakness

I may be Alone and Awake through this journey

But I shall not succumb to the engulfing mediocrity

Alone and Awake I’ll be.

For the world I want to see.

I’ll strive through it all, awake and alone… 

Alone and Awake.