Two eyes and my mind!

2024: 080817

Recently, while on board a flight ex-Madras (oops...Chennai), enroute to Calcutta (oops...Kolkata), I was just as bored, and engrossed in my favourite pastime - observing my co-passengers, trying to bring some semblance of association to the adage "birds of a feather, flock together"! It was more so, as, being cooped together!

Then, the following words just popped in and out of my ears! My silent words for you all...

Two eyes and my mind
Wander hither and thither!
Wonder why they both
Do not seek together!

Seeing million sights
Seeking billion peaks!
Locking million thoughts
Releasing trillion dreams!

Why-o-why think I?
More see I with closed eyes!
Why-o-why think I?
More dream I with open mind!

Where do I go, say I?
With open eyes and my mind!
Seeking glory at every turn
Reaching peaks, only to find
Where do I go now, say I?

Road I trot with open eyes
Clouds I fly with open mind!
Is destination that I see?
Or destiny is on mind!

Choice I make every second every time
Opportunity I seek every second every time!
Standing beside and behind
Hither my family, thither my kind!

Walking alone see I,
Lead all says my mind!
Is this the lust of the eyes!
Or the thirst of the mind!

Two eyes and my mind
Never seek together anytime!
Glory be me to have 'em as mine!
Glory be me to have 'em as mine!