Salma !!

Salma was her name, selling was his game...
Heard him every evening, singing songs of fame...
Dancing made her feel alive, for money wasnt all he strived...
A song that told us what she sold, Old was he but quite as bold...
'Beyr liyo beyr liyo, khatte meethe beyr liyo'...
Buy berries buy berries, sweeet and sour buy berries...
He sang in shrill and high pitched voice, looks were manly but not his choice...
Kids made fun and laughed and tugged, she pulled their cheeks and loved and hugged...
Man was he, a woman in me...
Nature was cruel, or was it we...
Some call him chhakka(sixer), others say hijda(eunuch)...
Nothing was different, a human was he...
Salma was man, or woman was he...
Sweet were the berries, and so was s-he...
Many like Salma, are trapped in dilemma...
Life they live dual, for others to seem unusual...
Respect is what they ask, acceptance is never a task...
Gods creations often differ, a little of him, a little of her...

Saboo, the end of a journey, or the beginning of a wait...

Saboo Saboo, was it a dream...
Pals I made, together we ate...
Played and worked and messed with our fate...
Things to do, and topics to confer...
Felt like a bond, we could never rupture...
4 years in a row, same faces i saw...
Never thought later, those faces would withdraw...
Keeping in touch was a task for few...
Few were the ones who cared to join a group...
A group that was aptly called saboo_oldpals...
Pals we were, but saboo was old...
Some wrote, some read, while some joined and left...
Some complained, some defended and some justified...
Together we had formed a clan, sharing caring over the cyber span...
Till there came a moment when, all we did was ring a bell...
To wake up few who used to write, wonder if they heard our plight...
1 would read and 2 would write, 3 and 4 would seldom fight...
5 would often say he cared, 6 announced that she was paired...
7 thought that time was cause, 8 said nothing common was...
All in all was time to say, saboo_oldpals no, no way...
May be some where down the line, 1 would write and 5 would whine...
Lost are people we had found, saboo_oldpals were not around...

I Like...

I Like, that this prose tells me of a man I have never met...

I Like, that it gives me overwhelming feelings of pain and happiness...

I Like, that it brings a tear or two to my eye, every time that i scan through the lines...

I Like, that it tells me a story of a man who lived his life well and well were his intentions while he lived and when he died...

I Like, that it makes me thank god a million times for what he has made me and what he wants me to have...

I Like, that it expresses the grief of someone who could not feel or share the pleasures and the hardships that this man went through...

I Like, that He put an end to his sufferings and made him leave the world behind...

I Like, that i like to think about him now and then and pray for his soul to rest in peaceful abode...

Does this mean that I like, that he died and is no longer amongst us... May be I do... May be i don’t... but,

I Like, that i read this prose ...

Hey.. check out the religious discussion we just had on our yahoo groups. I had contributed too. BTW, Tabs mentioned there is ME... Click on the link below.

http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=rrryb&tab=weblogs&uid=205105622

Leave a comment if you feel to do so.

CONDEMN RACISM

This is with regards to the recent broadcast of a call made by an american RJ to an Indian call ceter executive and her display of outright racism towards the one recieving the call. There is a petition being signed to penalize the wrong-doers. I have signed it and I request each on of you to do the same. I detest any sort of racism and not just becos the victim is an Indian, but becos the
target has been a human being. We need to teach racists a lesson so they could start respecting humans for what they are and not for where they originate from. Please sign the petition and help this cause.
Read the transcript and public opinion of what actually happened at
http://www.edrants.com/reluctant/001697.html
Sign the petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/removest/petition.html
Thanx
Regards,
Tabrez