Where Husbands Dare Poem by santhana louis

WHERE HUSBANDS DARE


She has just moved in to the apartment
To a flat in the same floor
Not a word, except a friendly smile
When she is out from the ever-closed door

Slowly, I sensed some news on her
That she is a divorcee and no offspring
Neither she goes out on work else where
I wonder, how she keeps herself all better

Curiously enough, I whispered to my husband
Of the suspenseful facts concerning the lone tenant
He was so absorbed at the details I told
With some added attractions of her un-guarded loneliness

Who is lazy & never shaves - is today so brisk
With clean shaven look and Old Spice musk
Roams in fine shirts even in indoors
to steal ‘her' darshan on petty pretexts

the same sickness is widely evident
with lot more colony husbands
who were hitherto harmless and faithful
the most virtuous are under the cloud now

but, behind the closed doors
she is quite busy at her desk
ignorant of all the outside turbulence
as a novelist by profession,
loving her workshop in her way of loneliness.


Louis Santhana