Poetry

1. THE WORST THING
The worst thing that could have happened to a fish; was that it fell innocently in the
midst of the sweltering desert instead of slithering voluptuously in its tank,
The worst thing that could have happened to a cockroach; was that it found itself
perched at the top of a kingly throne; instead of feasting its tentacles on the foul
smell of the lavatory,
The worst thing that could have happened to a loaded gun; was that it found itself
hurled right into the heart of the salty sea; instead of firing a pugnacious volley of
bullets,
The worst thing that could have happened to a cow; was that it was placed in an
ambience engulfed with rotten garbage; instead of wandering blissfully on the
pristine and green slopes,
The worst thing that could have happened to a tongue; was that it was dipped
mercilessly into fuming water; instead of sipping delectable pints of herbal tea,
The worst thing that could have happened to a bee; was that it was compelled to
swim in a pond replete with saliva; instead of boisterously evolving gallons of
sweet honey in its hive,
The worst thing that could have happened to a soldier; was that he was stationed to
feed new born children; instead of fighting valiantly in the battlefield of war,
The worst thing that could have happened to a cloud; that it was brutally dissipated
by invidious space crafts; instead of coalescing into a dense conglomerate; and
showering tantalizing droplets of rain,
The worst thing that could have happened to an eyeball; was getting exposed to a
field of acrimonious thorns; instead of imparting it with an incessant stream of
revitalizing moisture,
The worst thing that could have happened to a golden ring; was that it was
gruesomely dumped several feet beneath the earth; instead of scintillating
magnificently under pearly rays of the majestic moon,
The worst thing that could have happened to a priest; was drifting inevitably towards
salacious desires; instead of inexorably drowning the mind, body and soul; in the
service of Almighty Lord,

2. The worst thing that could have happened to the feet; was to walk on blistering
embers of fire; instead of stepping on a carpet of flocculent silk and Persian
wool,
The worst thing that could have happened to a slab of ice; was being kept on the fire
sizzling full throttle; instead of basking away in the interiors of the glorious
refrigerator,
The worst thing that could have happened to a building; was that it was constructed
in the zone of the devastating earthquake; instead of standing tall and fortified on
chunks of healthy soil,
The worst thing that could have happened to the gargantuan bubble of soap; was that
it was pierced a few seconds after it rose; instead of swelling profoundly and
proliferating many other of its kind in the atmosphere,
The worst thing that could have happened to a child; was to get orphaned as soon as
he took birth; instead of frolicking merrily in the arms of his mother,
The worst thing that could have happened to seasoned sticks of firewood; was
bearing the brunt of unrelenting rain and culminate into a rot; instead of igniting into
crackling flames in the starry night,
The worst thing that could have happened to a car; was stuttering every minute while
clambering up the hills; instead of whizzing through the mystical lanes of the valley at
kingly speeds,
The worst thing that could have happened to a contemporary watch; was to stop
ticking; instead of accurately depicting time every unfurling second of the day,
And the worst thing that could have happened to me was; sitting like a moron in the
office; browsing through a labyrinth of bulky files and papers; instead of gallivanting
on the hills with my beloved; and simultaneously penning down emphatically
enchanting lines of poetry.