Oh What is this new world......?

Oh What is this new world......?

Oh what is this new world
of the net
where each fish comes under a fake name
to fish other fish
and finally get into the net
of their own imagination !

Oh what is this new world
where everything looks so real
and turns out but an illusion
melting in nothingness
as the screen closes one window
after another to a world that exists
but resists not to anything !

Oh what is this new world
where an old ugly face becomes Cyndrella
at the click of a 'mouse'
and a slave is crowned with Prince's title
and one day both are drowned
in the ocean of fake identities
created out of thin air.

Oh what is the new world
Where freindship grows, hatred breeds
love flourishes and nothing is left one day
but a blank screen
that keeps from you all reality !

Oh what is this world of the internet?

                      -Shreenivas (21 Sept.2006)