See, not being scientists these commentators don’t get it,

See, they really need to study closely the two-stage rocket.

If our country’s to ride on wings of fire, achieve its mission,

It’d need a president with an ignited mind and 2020 vision.

Presidency like two-stage rockets has two consecutive fuel stages,

The launch stage is about plotting trajectories, correcting images.

The second phase is about touching base, achieving the right fusion,

Getting the correct propellants and achieving the perfect frisson.

Children just love me and lisp my poems at school assembly,

To grown-ups I talk about PURA and the knowledge society.

They call me ‘People’s President’ and send loving SMSs.

So what if sour political pusses poke fun of my tresses?

It is my frank opinion that such individuals should be sent,

Away in a gas-propelled rocket till their spleen is spent.

So what if some ‘experts’ believe I’m not political enough?

See, great men don’t need to boast or strut their stuff.

But people know that I’ve ignited the power of the country,

Sent out messages of rising India to the whole of humanity.

Five years in office are nothing when agendas are millennial,

One needs a decade at least to achieve the really celestial.

So it’s with sadness I bid farewell to my role as Rashtrapati,

I’d have liked to have orbited a bit longer around this prithvi.