GLOBAL VILLAGE

POEM

Deep and durable

friendship is a thing of past

in the sense that nowadays

deep and durable friendship has

cleared the way for

superficial and hollow friendship.

I wonder how come

deep and durable friendship has

turned superficial and hollow relationship

has come into existence

in the global village

where even distance

has shrunk so as to develop friendships.

But except for a few,

intimate friendships

have evolved into

shells where each person and

his immediate nuclear family

feel convenient and comfort inside

the shell like a tortoise.

In this fertile soil

of global village a

man or woman is always

on the move since each of them has turned

mobile every now and then.

We are all like

workers in mobile factories

and today’s friendship 

has no longevity and

a deep-rooted

friendship is a thing of the past.

With the time running fast

in the place of a friendship

another one grows.

Mobility is the hallmark of time

since the development of

information technology and

knowledge revolution

corporates compete each other

and offer lucrative remunerations

and better career prospects

for attracting efficient,

dynamic and enterprising youths

be it in our country or abroad.

With the growth and development in the

IT world and knowledge revolution

a deep-rooted relationship is ephemeral….