1. TONES
When I spoke to a child; my tone was as innocuous as the nimble and newborn
rabbit,
When I spoke to the politician; my tone had profound traces of cunnigness; tinges of
skillful imagination blended with each word,
When I spoke to the reprimanded burglar; my tone was acrid and harsh; trying to
petrify the daylights from his eyes,
When I spoke to the bartender; my tone was voluptuously surreal; demanding him to
serve me with delectable pegs of scarlet wine,
When I spoke to the Boss of the Company; my tone was overwhelmingly polite and
splendid; flattering him each instant to secure my job,
When I spoke to the taxi driver; my tone was rustic and wandering; instructing him to
drift me deep into the hills; poignantly embrace the winds of nature,
When I spoke to the Scientist; my tone had a sea of mysticism and enigma; intriguing
him with the dozens of bizarre ideas; circulating rampantly through my mind,
When I spoke to the doctor; my tone radiated with robust and rubicund health; and
the air that diffused from my mouth had a piquant odor of raw antiseptic,
When I spoke to the photographer; my tone was enchanting and replete with
tumultuous euphoria; enticing him to capture the most mesmerizing of my pose,
When I spoke to the insane terrorists; my tone was barbarically acrid; and I blurted
out every possible abuse prevalent on the planet; vehemently condemning them for
their scores of misdeeds,
When I spoke to the teacher in the school; my tone was docile and completely
submissive; pretending to be a diligent student; when infact I was most mischievous
of the entire batch,
When I spoke to those orphaned on the streets; my tone was sympathetic and
comforting; earnestly wishing them all the prosperity that ever hung in the air,
When I spoke to the washerman; my tone was as slippery as soap; as I gave him crisp
orders to annihilate the last bit of dirt adhering to my shirt,
2. When I spoke to the man-working deep in the mines; my tone was in the form of a
reverberating echo; trying to blast into his ears the same tunes he was used to; all day
and night,
When I spoke to the wildly screeching mad man; my tone was sonorous and
domineering; trying to pacify all the false apprehensions; taking their toll
unnecessarily on his life,
When I spoke to the dog loitering aimlessly on the streets; my tone was a hoarse bark;
trying to communicate with him better; in the only language he imbibed and
understood,
When I spoke to my beloved; my tone was bubbling with passion and unprecedented
exhilaration; as I tried to ignite the flames of my romance; with infinite times the
intensity into her persona,
When I spoke to my mother; my tone resembled the boisterous chimpanzee; totally
relieved of mundane and worldly tensions,
But when I tried to speak to God; there erupted no tone of mine at all; I stood
transfixed and wholesomely mute in front of his divine demeanor; with my head bent
in meek obeisance; and my soul drowned in the melody of his omnipotent tone
forever.
