FROM JOY TO DESTROY!

FROM JOY TO DESTROY!

 

Not just a ball and a bat business:

May look like one but has a ton in the name of fun,

Infused in plenty to stay audaciously gaiety,

Wedded to intense richness through instant dominance,

Chosen from a class to head and tass,

Accidentally a few might come persistently shaped by a dream,

Even they will have to upstream against impediments to awkwardly beam,

The youth invest unlettered shames to have an intoxicating fame!

 

Behind, or beneath, of above the stadium:

Inheritors of the chief and creditors from peak,

Will play a game of inclusion and seclusion,

Right across the country to approve an entry,

Own a mysterious list to tick and doubtlessly kick,

At times a name from the list might speak to make another weak,

None can shriek as they are considered to be the brick,

Yes! hand with influence and affluence alone can flick!

 

More than the throwers the hitters attain legendry:

This is uncontestably adhered pedantry,

They are the wall around which talents wither and fall,

Within the team they go tall by sidelining one and all,

Their consistent swing would condition promising wings,

The broadcast and taught taste will continue to sing,    

Threshed as hero into the hearts and minds of the young,

For God’s sake don’t change just repeat he is the king!

 

To commercialize this reverberation into celebration:

Planned unwisely for an unwarranted commemoration,

And gathered people for an epoch-making ovation,

For those triumphant leaven precious leaven had a life expulsion!

It is not a loss as million of eyes are waiting to gaze,

Your stumps will be shattered but their hearts are not going to jump,

Your annual league would make their families mourn with nostalgic fatigue,

you will have cup to cheer in coming year but those leaven will not spectate from the tier!

 

You go rounded but don’t let layman eternally grounded:

You take pride but don’t let the nation to be fried,

The game of ball shouldn’t play an extinctive foul,

Life has an invisible ampere to whom such departures cannot be referred,

The death of an ordinary mustn’t be treated like a veterinary,

These are the unfortunate leaven disappeared without an extoling commentary,

To have a proximity witness they have jubilantly paid,

Now embraced the stampede to be irretrievably laid!

 

Dr. U. Mahendran.