Kipling, See You, An Indian Sepoy Writing In English Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Kipling, see you,
An Indian sepoy writing in English,
Calling himself
An Indian English poet,
Talking and writing,
Writing and talking,
Giving the salute
And writing,
Writing and talking
And passing time.

An ex-armyman,
A radioman,
He writing poems in English,
Living a retired life,
Speaking in the old colonel's tongue,
Old wine in a new bottle,
New wine in an old bottle,
He taking not milk,
But wine,
Speaking in Indian pidgin-English,
Water in milk, milk in water.

A Hindustani sepoy,
His is an Indian pidgin-English,
Hindustani English,
Guarding the borders
And talking with his bosses
In English,
The old matric
Or the non-matric boy,
Now growling as a tiger,
Thinking himself an Englishman
Though left they.