COLONY OF LOVERS

We,
members of the Colony of Lovers,
united, peace-loving, contended lot
barring ocassional squabblings,
wordy duels and
cock-fights,
common to any society
every society
next moment bitter taste
gets dissolved
like a pinch of salt
thown into an ocean
forget we
bury we
all that went wrong.
We,
members of the Colony of Lovers
keep
a common code of conduct,
albeit an unwritten one.
And we abide by it
hold dear to us like the apple of our eyes.
A new comer
to our Colony
is put on probation
as,
at the outset
he is a stranger to us
like
we remain strangers to him.
Hence the probationary period.
Duration but depends.
From the start,
he is being watched,
his movements traced
his contacts scrutinized
his antecedents put under
microscope.
He could be a thug
could be a robberer
or a thief
could be a terrorist,
a traitor, a womaniser,
an anti-social element
could be anything
need a vigil
in these frightening times
aroud us.
Always we
the members of the
Colony of Lovers
make sure the fact
that
his movements,
dealings, way of living
everything is being put
uder the scanner,
whether
duration of his probation,
be prolonged,
or to be curtailed
depends upon
the unanimous conclusion
reached,
after periodical reviews.
Once he passes all ordeals
then he is welcome,
a red-carpet unrolled before him
remains he
one among us,
one among the Colony of Lovers
that we are...
........in comes another new-comer....
and we like a 24X7 TV channel
on the go....
reporters, cameras and crew,
all ready.....