Poetry Section
AMBIENCE
Halting Trains
Tear into the privacy
Of roofless bathrooms
Lined along the rail-track:
Soaring flights,
Descend into green heartland
Littered with
Thousand tenements:
Monsters of steel,
Buses, Trucks, Cars
Blare their way
Onto the zig-zag roads
Of my City
Noisy, dirty, crowded surroundings
Smother the whispering silence
Of thousand trees and bushes;
Green city offers no solace,
To a thirsty eye, or a tired mind:
City boasts of no ambience
Save in fancy showrooms,
Costly restaurants, Minister’s cottages,
Elite clubs, manicured lawns;
Where poor citizens are not admitted.
Pubs, Clubs, Discos,
Where fairies alight
From twilight to midnight;
Return to their modest dwellings
Dreaming of better HOME
May the hearts soften ,
May the steel protect;
May the ambience embrace
The ugly, the poor the modest.
Editor's Note: The Poem by a close associate Mr. Ashok Sharma, was first published in The Hitavada, Nagpur
on Feb 13, 1994
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