MARVELLOUS TRUTHS

A detective unravels a crime - that is his profession,

We love to read about them – in all our intention.

Solving a Why and a How become a brain teaser,

Novelists deal with mysterious phenomena with the help of an eraser.

Not everyone is born as Christie or a Doyle,

Yet the penchant for detective fiction has us all embroiled.

Far greater things puzzle the mind than chicken-egg conundrum,

To delve deeper into mysteries may lead us to malaria falciparum.

How we continue living amidst miseries – it’s the biggest mystery,

We learn to cope with them in ways not taught in books of history.

Fictional sleuths have ensnared us with their acumen,

Deductive experiments are done to verify truth of many a specimen.

Mysterious ways of the world are there for us to unravel

They are there for the sleuths to work on and us to marvel.

Good always wins over evil in detective stories,

That should be so, because fiction belongs to land of fairies.