My Ram-rod straight Aide De Camp <br />My left limb used to be a nice little slave <br />Beautifully servile, <br />Ready to carry out my commands <br />Mostly springing from flashes of momentary impulse <br />Provoked by anger, hate, lust, greed and uncompromising pride <br />A proverbial Comrade- in-Sin <br />One of the suicidal fools of the Light Brigade <br />Charging to their doom in Balaclava... <br /> <br />And some essential tasks of cleaning … <br /> <br />But it was a docile, taciturn, nice, obedient, <br />Never say no <br />Gent in waiting... <br /> <br />No questions asked, just follow orders…. <br /> <br />Now, after paying servile obeisance for an entire life time <br />My left arm, would you believe it, <br />Has finally decided to raise the banner of rebellion <br />A rebel without a cause... <br /> <br />The old fool! <br />What does it think it is? <br />Fidel Castro? Lenin? Mao Zhe Dong? Gandhi? <br />What a brazen exhibition of senile desperation! <br />But it has stubbornly stuck to its wayward ways... <br /> <br />No amount of cajoling, coercion, threat or greed can make it work for me again… <br /> <br />Who could have ruined such a flourishing career in slavery? <br />I think I know, <br />Even as my friend Dr. Navanil Barua won't accept it in public, <br />It is that bloody drop of dopamine! <br />Mine-Regular-Dose-of Dop! ! <br />The supply lines have finally dried off! ! ! <br /> <br />Supply lines, as we all know, <br />Has this strange habit of drying off <br />When you need them the most.... <br /> <br />Now I am on a constant diet of sedative <br />Perhaps, to forget this act of betrayal <br />By one so close…. <br /> <br />Pssst…..don't ever <br />Never, never, never <br />Trust your left Arm…! ! ! <br /> <br />© Syed Ahmed Shah, Bokultol, Guwahati.<br /><br />Syed Ahmed Shah<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-left-arm/
