Countdown Poem by Jagannath rao Adukuri

Light then permeated
Our being and the body
Partook of the starlight
The mind felt light and
Floating like a bird's feather
Riding down layers of air.


Then it all changed one day
And we started piling hours
Later, minutes and seconds
And chronicling our activities
For record and viewing later.
We needed this benchmark
A referential framework
For everything in our lives.


The countdown has now begun
We no longer care for history
We now are all ears and eyes
For the tick-tock of our clock
And the flip of our calendar.