Just another Saturday noon
When men and women
Boys and girls
Some young children too
Along with elder people
Towards homes
Longing for rest
As well as lunch-
The next day
Being a holiday
Common to say
Everyone in jovial mood
The vehicle-
The public transport
Carrying all of them
Coasting to destination-
Though eighteen years
Ever since
It has been inaugurated
And refurbished several times
Certified by transport officers
Renewal period
Still a year left
To be certified again
In spite of minimal mechanical lag
Tolerable enough
To run as normal condition-
When all of a sudden
The driver losing control
Deviating abruptly
As well as turbulently
Unable to bring it
Safe back to road
Plunging in canal
Running in parallel all along
Drowning everyone completely
Desperate to come outside
Windows locked completely-
Very few of them
Totally countable ones
Swimming themselves
To climb to road
Leaving the rest-
So sad to say
And so much a tragedy
To read in news-papers
Toll reaching almost
Little more than two dozens
All of them
Rest in peace!
Questions to God
Remain unanswered-
Whom to blame?
Very practical
To understand the truth
Recalling what I said
Several lines before-
Repeating once again-
"Though eighteen years
Ever since
It has been inaugurated"
Numbers in life-
A jigsaw puzzle
Or a riddle to solve
Perhaps to find
Questions to answer
Whom to ask?
The jigsaw puzzler
Or the riddle solver
A poem of conpletely different taste.Thanks for sharing.
So many tragedies we don’t know who to blame, your poem articulates the issue clearly, answers are left to us individually.
A nice day today matter for densly populated cpuntry like us thats why we are cheap comodity... Law? Who cares? The driver or the fitness inspector? At least we r running is engh...10 for such pic...
Root causes of many of events around us are associated with unsafe acts and unsafe conditions of our life. Probably, there is no single solution... Nice attempt to present in a poem. Thank you for sharing with us. With best wishes PC
A refined poetic imagination, Vijay Sai. You may like to read my poem, Love And Iust. Thank you.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Nice. I’m curious where this is?