Pipe Dreams.

      Did Helen of Troy make Faustus immortal
    With the Kiss he asked for?
    Between the kiss and Heavenly bliss,
    What did Faustus really ask for?
 
    Did Cleopatra breathe the nobleness of life
    In Mark Antony's machismo embrace?
    Or wast it just the wishful thinking
    Of a third of the Roman triumvirate?

    Yesterday's taboos have become today's traditions..
    Sharing the bed beyond the conjugal boundaries,
    Is labeled now as live-in-relationship
    Winning the nod of judicial heads.

    The stripped secrets of self bound moments
    Are processed and outsourced
    As tinned trading stuff,for a profit margin.

   Love and nobleness
   Were lost as pipe dreams in madcap transactions
   Registered in blood,
   Between the German philosopher and the super mammon,
   And remembered as romance,
   Between the Roman brave heart and the Egyptian ecstasy.
                                                              P.Chandrasekaran.