Enslaved To The Throne

Enslaved to the Throne :

The sun shimmering on the window pane,5 times a week,
Pain surges through my heart & I've no words to speak.
Stagnant life & monotonous struggle is a part of life.
Just don't have time for Friends ,Family or Wife.
The scorching heat & the Sweat makes it worse,
once in the prison,you're expected to be a race horse.

Strapped to the chair,in a primate like poise.
IT industry was never the right choice.
Health goes for a toss,you tend to burn out soon,
life isn't secure under a glass moon.
Knowledge,deadlines ,delivery ,billability,
getting peace of mind is common inability.

Appraisals are the way to lure our kind.
Coz by then most of us have lost our mind.
Hallelujah !! It's a blind leading a blind.
Codes of development,has our fates bind.
Complex structure & database designs,are like
finding uncut diamonds in dark coal mines.

Forwarded emails & baseless humor are welcome breaks,
Better than JAVA,SQL,.NET,Mainframes & SOAs.
We ain't working for peanuts,but that's what we get paid.
Ain't enough when you have to share the same bed.
Life goes on discarding the obscure events.
Something out of the blue is appreciated as a new trend.

With no way out , bearing the brunt of this treachery,
Hoping to see a change in the future.
A word of advice to the next generation,
fight it , face it don't ignore ,it'll change for the better.
Reap the seeds you've sown,
we're enslaved to the throne.


Srijeet Basu
6th April 2010, Wipro