Issues, like mushrooms, spring up when two or more humans meet,
Issues start from how you are and what size is monkey’s feet;
And thus my friend and I, like nail and flesh – same age – once met,
Debated on existence – theme fitting an intellect!
Socrates, the thinking giant’s thoughts on society!
Transcendence and idea-world of Plato’s gaiety!
Substance and categories of Aristotle – complex!
Theophrastus Botanical world – looked like an apex!
Descartes –cogito ergo sum; Spinoza – sole substance,
John Lock – life, liberty, and property as confidence;
Discussions went endless like the flow of a stream fluent,
We had put a break and dwelt on matters very current…
Existentialism, like a thrilling tale, so exited us,
Concepts such as – God’s no more – man is in confusing fuss;
Absurdity, null, void – A world filled with hell-like chaos,
If death puts everything at a standstill, what’s not pathos?
Yet, there’s no absolute end to creaturely life, I said,
Amidst death, there’s the great resurrection and transcendence;
This theory, like a scorpion-sting, he soon reacted,
As though I’m an Orangutan, he got much protracted…
If so, will I rise, like Jesus, with my body and soul?
Or take rebirth into a dog or donkey or an owl?
Or from my ashes arise an orchid and multiply?
Or in soil or molecules of the cosmos will I sigh?
When I felt the arguments get heated like a quarrel,
And could bring in our heart cracks like drought dismally cruel;
I thought friendly relation is greater than life after,
And tried to replace the debate with some jokes and laughter!
Well, whatever way we exist after death, is life too,
Existence unblemished in heart, I said, is always true!
This too did not cut the cake, and he stood firm on his view,
I thought, within: if he holds to his view, why should I woo?
The world’s vast; life’s great; could I close growth in a cool cocoon?
Thoughts, like seas, are wavy and endless; is life a small boon?
My cat may have three legs; can’t another have four or more?
Hence, in a world of views, should arguments have any shore?