From Utopia to Utopia!

Prologue: There are times when you are in a reflective mood and tend to pick up the pen to vent out the emotional turmoil into a fine piece of art but then there are times when there is deadline! This poem is a result of deadline creativity and something that got me into the first finals of my life in a  poetry slam. But then hey, I have just started! 

[Utopia: an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect]



Utopia! Sounds perfect as it's own design,
It's mine. No! it's mine! Let us too divide this divine.
Why? Don't be taken aback, after all it's human nature,
We already ruined this world, try and remember, I have the nomenclature.
And didn't it all start perfectly here, until men found the mighty fire,
I think of it now, the great discovery, is a historical satire.
This earth which God gave us, we willingly gave it to Cain 
He used the same fire all along while we expected it to rain.

So let's not play the blame game
We all know it's a shame shame 
Just stop and think why don't we blink 
When we say let's go to war
And don't you think it's a scar mark?
Well, I would like to quote Sir Karl Marx,
"Reason has always existed but not in a reasonable form"
It is time we find alternative methods, people, of this dorm;

An eye for an eye cannot be the case
We take two eyes, they take our race.
It will be slow, I know, as a court proceeding 
But I see now, wow, you are still reading.
That is how I know you see hope,
Can I count you in, are you aboard? 
Now dream of one land, one golden country,
Where everyone expects acceptance and not a sentry.
To live and to let live, be the criteria,
Promise me today we will make a new Utopia!

                                                                                                  -Farag Anjum Kureshi
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