After working hard for hours and hours Days and days Weeks and weeks And months and months One would have thought That I deserved a break Of course, a short one But a break nevertheless However, I was in for a rude shock Instead of being given a break I was assigned to a new project And a huge one at that Involving oodles of intense research Followed by a truckload of calls In order to extract critical information From a bunch of highly reticent people And finally Drawing an extremely complicated chart Yes, I'd done all this before But that was nearly a year ago And going through the same process, all over again Was always going to be a herculean task But hey, I was not going to give up that easily That too right at the beginning of the project So, I sat to work in right earnest However, after a few hours of hard research My head was spinning And my eyes were burning Thus, it was a relief to leave the office However, there was still the small matter Of commuting back to my home By the dreaded Mumbai locals I was squeezed so thoroughly That, by the time I finally managed to reach home All I wanted, was to crash on my bed And sleep; for a long, long time But hey, I decided to write this poem instead In order to record my thoughts And more importantly, provide an outlet For all those bottled up feelings So that, by the time the next day arrived I would wake up with my batteries recharged overnight Ready to tackle the monumental task in front of me After all, as the oft-repeated cliche goes It is better to try and fail Than not try at all
Poem I decided to write on starting a massive research project that involves finding the organisation structure of a US-based MNC.