Fursat

Lifeline Poetry Challenge Day 2

time to idle - a poem

I can make a long list of things starting with what I want more of, more love, more sleep, more hours in my day, more time, more money, may be, more space, more hands, and it goes on*.

The poem that I am thinking today is about more leisure time, a type of time that seems to have shrunk or almost disappeared from our lives, I mean the time for doing nothing, just thinking, day dreaming, idling.

I want more Fursat (Carefree, idling, day dreaming time)

Yes, dil dhoondta hei vahi fursat ke raat din (Gulzar)

Simple translation of this line would be

“I miss those carefree days and nights, when we just idled around!

This idling time, which was our own free time, when we did nothing, but spent time, is gone from this society that we live in.

No one has such ‘carefree/idle time anymore!*

We are all so busy!

And don’t you start me on mobile phones, which have highjacked this one precious thing from our lives, something, that was our own.

Our free time. Social media, thanks to Information Technology, has filled it.

Even much before we evolved to having mobile phones attached to us as our hand and ear extensions, an 18th century poet had said

“…there is no time to stand and stare”, (Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us).

Yes, that’s the type of time, I am talking about. When you could just stand and stare , or sit and stare, take your pick!

It seemed you are not doing anything, and yes, you actually are not!

Yes, that’s what I want, time to idle, with nothing to do, and more of it!

So without much a do here is my poem (to be revised a few times of course, as it is just a pouring of haphazard ideas which hopefully will start to make some sense).

Oh’ how I long to wake up, once again

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