𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

I see the right words right in front of me But unable to grab them with my tongue lately Sign of old age or something more sinister I am clueless, but prefer the former. R earing kids to face the future The prime duty of a parent This does not mean giving you sleepless nights But to prepare you As I had been in the past. M y speech may no longer be coherent This does not mean the thoughts are in the same league I can still run, toggle, fast forward and rewind memories And enjoy every moment of it Despite my apparently impassive looks. I am not a prisoner stuck in an old body I am still a happy bird free to roam the world Taste the food that I once loved Read a book and enjoy watching kids play But these are now done in my mind only.

In everyone’s life, it is said that each one will get Three (03) Teachers, Three (03) Friends, Three (03) Enemies and Three (03) Lovers. Unfortunately, they all are disguised and to know which is which with certainty , one has to learn from, trust, fight and love them equally, one time or the other. At the end, you would be able to unmask all.

Life crawls to dry land Once, million years ago Was it to seek refuge or better life? What was it running away from then? War of some sort or degradation Answers we would never know. Life crawling back in to sea again Millions years later This time around We know what it is running away from The meaningless wars Humiliations and degradations. Living is going through circles And have we come to the point Where it all started Once, million years ago. King Sasanka. @ September 2015

Bag full of tricks Conjure up at the fall of a hat Fumbles desperately Scraping the bottom But nothing is left in there When one is needed most. Cheerful and vociferous Specially this time of the year Happy to lay eggs in another’s nest So it will has more time to be Happy and chirpy. Cave or Condo No matter where one lives Throwing seeds around and far The only thing The evolution ever failed to tame.

We all want to believe that none should be above the law. This is good only on paper and some are always above and beyond the reach of the law. Some rulers get away with even murder and not even get a knock on their wrist for their crimes. But unfortunate others end up in more troubles than one could imagine. There are two things that we can do in this situation. Because believing in that law is impartial and has the power to reach at anyone is just another fallacy only. The best thing is to stay out of troubles, if you have no way of joining the elite club of those are above and beyond the reach of the law.

Now the World Cup Cricket 2015 has entered its Super 8 stage and all four Test playing Asian teams are in the Super 8 stage. The fans and money is in the Asian region and I am sure it will be a big boost for broadcasters. Seeing thousands of fans clad in their favorite team’s attire swarming into ground, I could not help asking aloud the above question. Most of them are either first or second generation Aussies, but clad in their former place of domicile (or of their parents') team's attire and supporting the team (when it is pitted against their present host country) is not amounting to breach of their pledged allegiance?

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