When A Pedestrian Speaks Poem by M D Dinesh Nair

I am fed up with walking all this way!
Why have you laid a road so long for me?
You are the one who never walks along with me
And hiding somewhere aren`t you observing me?

In the drops of my sweat that spill on the way
Is`nt it my life that falls wounded to death?
If I continue to walk still on like this for ever,
I may surely fall down as a corpse somewhere.

The pangs strewn by my pains are ever
Heard like music by you, I know.
I know you are now writing your great verse
With the pieces and loaves of my sorrows.

I know this roadway will end nowhere
And now all along the way laid by you
I see your shadow and your grinning face
With a sarcastic expression that never fades out.

Let me tread on this way long and long for no reason
And when my legs stop you will hear one day,
You know, you may hear the lament of a pedestrian
And you will snail all along your way like a snake.