I am so lonely

This is from my archives.... composed April 17, 2012

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I am so-o-o lonely

Road surfaces like scrambled egg on toast –

With random speed-breakers, sans traffic lanes;

Crazy signal sequences and harried cops trying to make sense of it all,

Who will tell them how roads and traffic rules should be ?

Who will explain what is disciplined driving ?  

I could, but they do not ask…. I am so-o-o lonely….

Walking along the streets watching people young and old,

Glassy looks, plastic smiles or a frowned brow with downcast eyes…

Blue-toothed boys and ear-plugged girls,

Cocooned off from the world they live in now –

Who do they talk to ? What do they listen ?

My phone remains silent… I am so-o-o lonely…

Evening parties all over the place,

Weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other pricey dates;

Formal suits and brilliant dresses, sparkling jewelry and all

Women measuring other women carefully, while the men too,

Keep looking at them intently;

No one looks at me….. I am so-o-o lonely….

We created Time, and got enslaved by it;

A perfect continuum of life chopped up into pieces

Of pre-defined periods where work is ordained and one cannot rebel;

Life has become a clock-work; you live by the minute,

And dreams too, lie like a fractured mosaic within those boundaries…

With time came the realisation…. I am so-o-o lonely…

You feel the same ?

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