Chained To Life Poem by AnanthaKumar SUBRAMONY

It's not new, for her, this air,

The rhythm of iron rolling iron over;

The clutter of feet, or the dusts that shatter,

Doesn't make her eye-lids ever astir…



Each time, with a horn heard from distance,

Her heart pounds with hopes sans substance;

And as each of those trains, showing a flash, disappears,

Totally bruised, she finds her gentle desires…



She's no nightmare for herself, but others;

For her feet are chained, and her life as well;

So condemned a way, she's been christened by this world,

Just, 'coz her thoughts don't stay, and her emotions swivel…?



At times, she cries; at times she sighs;

At times she laughs, with reasons mystic,

At times she pauses for wiping her eyes-

While her lips shiver, cursing the fate-fanatic…



Nobody cares, but to chase her with stones-

To know the reasons profound, for her plight now prevalent;

Bearing in eyes, some stories untold,

She does wander, from dawn to dusk and beyond.



Whose benign arrival are her eyes waiting for?

May be of her parents, whom she lost long before;

Or is it her husband's, who left her on losing her luster?

May be it's her children's; or of the kinship she once owned;

There's none to be spared, amongst those diabolic,

Who have left her pariah; draining the life out of her life…



What eyes are eyes, that don't see her tears?

What hearts are hearts, that don't feel her vibes?

For the lone mistake she's ever done,

From those known to those unknown, love everyone;

What people are people, who mock at her?

And what fate is fate, that has kept her alive?



Again she cries; again she sighs;

Again she laughs with reasons mystic;

Again she pauses for wiping her eyes-

While her lips shiver, cursing the fate-fanatic…



And yet nobody cares, but to chase her with stones,

To know the reasons profound, for her plight now prevalent;

Dragging the heavy life, to which she's chained,

She still wanders- expecting a halting train-

From one platform to another,

And from dawn to dusk and beyond…

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