For the Last Human Being

Gaurav Ojha 

You recall the world you have
Left behind
Without any memories
No time is worse than this 
Past was also never better either 
Civilization has marked its progress
Just like trees standing by the roads
Same ways of doing things
Clothes can’t change the character 
Hey, little people, we know how to run and hide 
See HOW THEY SMILE
Statues we have constructed with your wrinkled hands 
There is nothing to hang about 
Everything returns to sand and soil 

We THINK OF US AS SO SMALL
HELPLESS TO STRUGGLE 
Too timid for courage
We have learned to occupy
Follow rather than formulate 
Hey People, my last human being 
We have been programmed to work, sleep and consume
History is waiting for us to get bore
For meaningless struggle to unfold again  

You have enjoyed idols, ideas and myths
Gossiped over heroes and rascals
You need experts for guidance
Motivation speaker for motivation
You chew on everything that a thinker throws 
Without any thought of your own
You are living a story that has already been told
you have a TAIL THAT WAGS 
Not a mouth that bites and barks 

ESCAPE AND Stick TO little SCREEN
CLOUDS THAT NEVER stand still
YOU ARE MOVING UP AND DOWN
SIDE AND STRAIGHT 
WHERE HAVE YOU REACHED 
NOWHERE, No meaning
You carry tiny boxes and tiny minds
You are fond of everything short and small
Don’t awake up last human beings
Keeping on circling your habits and routines
ALL day all night, enjoy your sleep 

(Gaurav Ojha has engaged as a faculty of communication, critical thinking, marketing and marketing research in different educational institutions. As a part of his creative interests, Mr. Ojha has regularly published opinion posts, poems and articles on a wide range of topics from death, disease, social issues, and humanism to post-religious spirituality.)