A Quarrel

A Quarrel

P K Routray

There arose a quarrel among past, Present and Future,

As to who is the greatest was the cause of their agitated composure

Past tells that I am the father and the grand father

Without me none of you both would have been there either,

I give you knowledge and also store them for you both,

Without me you will never be born and not exist on the earth.

Present tells I am the doer and hence the hero and the main actor,

You are all side actors and roles to play are very minor.

Future tells I am your aspiration, vision and dream,

For me you work, hence I command the cream.

Present proposed being sure of victory to go to a judge for a decision,

Past and future agreed to it and proposed time for the mission.

They all agree to appoint time as the arbitrator,

They felt that time is their only benefactor.

To catch hold of time was a problem for them,

They forgot the fight to catch the time and this became their sole aim.

A man proposed them to make a petition in a format,

With name father’s name and date and also with facts exact.

So they can catch time for a moment and hand over the petition,

And sleep with complacency leaving time to give his decision.

Filling up of the petition was never possible and they could not find any tact,

As in a fraction of a moment their identity merges to become one as only past.

Till now they are running for a solution,

But with so much running after time, they only get its elusion.

Man is an intelligent animal; can he

he stop the time for a moment?

Or can they correctly find a solution to the quarrel so that no longer it should last?