Techies We Are

Often i have had to hear the complaint that i dont keep in touch as much as i used to..
Well work kept me busy at times.

And then i met a very good friend who said i never keep my promises as work took precedence over everything. i would promise to meet and then i would cancel at the last minute saying i can't. yup that was my first project at work and life wasnt as easy as it used to be. Coming home at 2 am and then leaving at 7 am. Saturdays and sundays too.
And often when i get upset , i just end up writing a couple of lines.

Thus i wrote "Techies we are".

I was always afraid to send out the poems that i write to friends, but this time i did and i think it went all around the world and finally came back to my inbox with the poet as unknown... I was just a lil upset... but then its a techie way indeed.

Well that’s what techies like us can expect.
When we work mindless of the world around us,
Not seeing dear and near ones we work,
But the hope of seeing them does remain.
We work when the world is awake and asleep.
Without a break without rest,
We give our heart, mind and body to the codes we create and test.
Yet it does hurt when they say in u I do not trust.

What else can we do, but do what we can best,
And that’s work without rest,
Without hope that none does wait,
Whenever we reach, however late.

In the confines of cubicles by artificial light,
Sipping coffee from the machines day and night.
Speaking on phones, in meetings we sit.
Seeing the monitor, the keyboards we hit.
Far away from loved ones whom for days we do not meet.
Remembering them sitting on our seat.
This is life for us,
Working away from homes and loved ones in places far.
What a life, techies we are.

Well more about that friend later someday sometime..