Amidst the freezing chill that descended impromptu upon the planet ; as human being stacked himself with woolens of myriad shapes and proportions and yet groaned in indecipherable disdain ,
amidst the pathetically abysmal solitariness of the night ; where unabashed wolves majestically philandered and danced ; before vindictively hunting for the meat of their nocturnal prowl ,
amidst the cacophonic sound of motorized traffic which was interspersed with pugnacious smoke ; meaningless horn ; impetuous youngsters hurling abuse as they overtook innocuous pedestrians – lambasting the spirit of their freshly acquired adulthood ,
amidst the unruly heaps of garbage piled rampantly on the streets ; carried intermittently by the storm to a multitude of corners of the society ; culminating into obnoxiously rotten frigidity ,
amidst the savagely acrimonious and commercial establishment of offices – where plethora of cash transactions were executed ; without due respect to the integrity of an earnest human and his ideals of philanthropic goodness ,
amidst the ruthlessly indiscriminate felling of enamoring trees – which builders undertook surreptitiously after dusk had fallen ; to articulately evade public fury and yet construct their fancifully towering edifices – of nonchalantly dead mortar and concrete ,
amidst the scuffles and squabbles that sporadically plagued living beings – as they deliberately found fault with each other ; even as marvelous romance could easily have been the flavor to uninhibitedly cherish and relish ,
amidst the abominably hostile firing of missiles and declaration of terrorizing war – which nations on different sides of the border indulged into – in a worthless display of feckless might and power – instead of rejoicing in the religion of humanity ,
amidst the treacherously salacious rat race to achieve unchallengeable success – trespassing and massacring the closest of blood relations including parents – incase their set of benevolent ideals impeded the path even an insouciant trifle,
amidst deplorably parasitic political practices ; where it didn’t matter the slightest as to which party came to power – since none of them responded to the voice of the impoverished citizen – the same common man who’d triumphantly elected them ,
amidst the dreadfully hideous paucity of quintessential amenities like food grain and fruit ; which had ridiculously manifested due to inflation and dastardly corruption – even as the soil yielded its absolute best ,
amidst the lugubriously stretched spurious parties that flowed with venomous cigarette smoke and sinful liquor – with the corporate pedigree of the society flaunting the most expensive showrooms of different designer revelry – whilst the orphan , maimed , wounded and famished slavered without a roof on their scalp ,
amidst the today’s teacher who unnecessarily loaded the talented child with ominously large assignments – in frivolous attempt to improve the reputation of the best academically oriented school in town ,
amidst the fiercely savage growl of the panther which had escaped the forest since that had more human than animals – in its quest for finding a new symbiotic habitat ; gloriously unfettered ,
amidst the preposterously fetid gutter that had developed cracks in the trajectory of its pipe – from which crawled out ants and worms of every conceivable and incongruous shape ; to irascibly creep into the beautiful serenity of the magnificently embellished dwelling ,
amidst the ludicrously artificial formality that members of different households followed at occasions – sonorously holding hands like the most cultured entities of this planet seated beside each other – but actually wanting to slap in their envious animosity ; soon after ,
amidst the tempestuously scorching lava that rolled down at lightening speeds from the volcanic mountain – having the tenacious potential of charring near and surrounding vicinity to sheer and dismal nothingness ,
amidst the parched land of the wholesomely evaporated lake that had become so ; as officials had extricated it completely to erect the most spectacularly royal complex ; fostering all fraternities of contemporary sport ,
If I found solace and peace inside a mesmerizing object ; then it was my delightfully cozy and simplistic quilt .
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