Oh IT is something very big

When I was twenty or so I was walking along a lane once just after a heavy fall of rain. It was well into summer and the rains were unexpected. There were puddles all over the lane and those with costly leather footwear were having a hell of a time getting through the lane. I was one of them. One section of the lane was extremely difficult, the puddle of water extending to both the sides for some length. One side of the lane was covered by bamboo fences and there was nothing people could do about that side. The other side had a thin brick wall, just a single layer of un-plastered bricks going up to a height of five feet or so above the ground. At the very bottom of the wall there was a thin ledge just above the water line where you could put your feet on and by holding on to the top of the wall you could jump over that area in comparative safety.

There were several people trying this idea out, and being smaller and less heavy than me was managing to get to the other side. I thought about it and being a little doubtful of ever getting across like that, thought of testing the strength of the brick wall first. I placed my hand on it and put some pressure on it. The bricks came loose. Someone laughed and there were a few comments from behind.  I looked around and as luck would have it almost everyone had seen that and was hard at work telling others who did not know. I put the bricks back in a very serious mien. Though I won’t in anyway compare to the “Undertaker” of the WWF fame, I can put on a pretty decent show of fierceness when needed. Anyway none said a word about it after that.

I and my beautiful sneakers had to wade through the puddle to the other side …. …….

Well I think that certain walls are weak from the time it is built and no amount of eulogizing them are going to make them strong. Structural weaknesses cannot be remedied. These few lines are about a wall and a fall ………………

Oh IT is something very big

It’s wonderful

How a wall falls down

Just like that

This happened to them once

And they thought the world was going to end.

Yet some say

The wall was old and decrepit

And was already collapsing……

But they listened not

And    went on sitting on the wall

Oblivious to everything

Yet they were just too meaty

And the wall buckled

And went to pieces……

May be it was due to something heavy

Pulling from the inside

But who realizes themselves

And they had to fall

They still believe

That they didn’t really fall

And only the wall fell off…….

Well everyone to their belief’s ……..

Yet the scoffers are still

Laughing their heads of…………..

No one knows why.

(A pox on the scoffers, they would not allow people to live)

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