How many messages of offers do I have
in a day?
i have not made a count yet
but their types i can record
with ease
Messages from my contacts, old and new,
joining social media, posting photos of foreign trips,
joining mountaineering clubs, buying gold
and homestays on hills, taking dietary course
and visiting gyms and parlours and
readying for upcoming fashion shows
Flood of offers and discounts on items
i once bought from the grocery, shoe store,
malls, hardware, electronic and electrical shops,
offers from sites once i visited for home appliances,
room furnishing, hair dressing, nails polishing,
ready made furniture, tools and books, indoor fittings
and outdoor restoration
Messages of dhamaka exchange offers from
the car showrooms, bikes outlets, gold showrooms,
special offers from luggage showrooms
and leather and nylon boutiques,
and offers for school uniform and water cans and tanks,
special dinner dishes and heavily-discounted thalis,
offers for booking special hours
in bars, dhabas and restaurants,
Then i get offer after offer from my
telephone operators, broadband service provider,
air services, package tour agencies
for international and domestic
packages, and festive offers for landing on holy lands,
instant credit offers from banks and credit cards
and credit houses, online instant loan authorizers,
And the messages of offers from Amazon
for summer, winter, Great Indian Festivals Sales,
Curtain Raiser Deals,Today’s Deals round the year
Let’s not talk of the offers
the boards, the banners, the posters,
on roads and highways, on bodies of buses
and trains, display for endless gala openings
and kickoff ceremonies
Let’s not talk of offers the hired mikes
of doctors, shopkeepers and body builders, make for
the dying patients, the wedding parties
and the armies of the unemployed
Offers I have all around
even offers for full body spa at luxury resorts,
free online session for mental health,
free financial literacy and for transacting
instant profit-making shares without any hassle
And when i am in two minds–
which offer should I take
and which one should i smartly refuse
i cannot think on my own,
but here, my friends and foes stand tall by me,
and make me sail safely to the shore,
healing my wounds and woes
