Battle for bandwidth

Introducing to reality

To what the brightest minds aspired

Working wonders without wires

Waves carry coded data at the speed of light

What is now commonplace was once a display of might

From a modest start the burgeoning e-balloon burst

More people, more gigabytes, more megahertz

Renovating and innovating to keep up with the pace

Fighting a real battle for precious virtual space

It goes on becoming harder to just describe the ease

As asteroids of factoids strike you at 4G

Everything the world shares is now in your pocket

There’s a newly gained importance of proximity to a socket

A thousand answers to every question at the drop of a hat

A thousand pings every hour from the never-ending chats

Meet the new-day messenger: short-lived, bloodless, heartless

A fragile plastic package of portable, programmable smartness

Worlds get connected with just a touch on a screen

But it’s the power of the human touch that’s turning man into machine

Reflection of the Moon

Far away from the city lights

In the darkness obscured by their artificial mist

Dominating most of the starlit nights

Gleams the ever-changing lunar disc

Reflected light casts its image

On the dark, still waters of the silent lake

Dark, menacing clouds hover in the sky

The winds wild, howling, astray

The brief staccato grows into a roar

A downpour develops from a fine spray

The flashes of reflection are restored and distorted

By the ripples perturbing the silent lake

Waning every passing day

The lunar disc vanishes for a night

The stars, despite all their might

Apparently do little with their rays

A day later, the lunar crescent emerges

Painting the blank canvas of the silent lake

Occasional tremors trouble its surface

But they are kept out of sight

In a show of power at the late hours

It invokes the mammoth ocean’s might

But still casts the same reflection

On the dark, still waters of the silent lake