I Do Not Mind Beling A Blind Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

It was a scene in a film
The most beautiful actress in the heroine role
She innocently arrogates herself
And assumes the responsibility of
Getting the hero
A role in an advertisement
Being filmed by her advertising firm
She was narrating him the scene
And was rehearsing a dialogue
In a traffic-ridden narrow lane
Suddenly the heroine stops her conversation
And gets focused on an elderly blind person
Who is planning to cross the road
She rushes to him
And holds his shoulder
Guides grasping him very close
Narrates the blind man what all she sees
Including a woman beating her erring husband
A boy slipping over a banana skin
A drunk dancing to a song played in a tea stall
Making him enjoy the aroma of
A deep fried onion based snack
Getting ready in another roadside fast food stall
Pushing him safe and fast
An open manhole in the middle of the road
Insisting him to stop and listen to
The cricket score of a one dayer
Stopping him to caress the cheek of
Sweet little school going girl
And at last reaching a point
That meets a main road
Telling the blind man that
He should go straight on the left to reach
His destination
The shot was quick sharp touchy emotional
And to the point
That the heroine knows how to guide a blind
And at the same time how to make him enjoy
The happenings around
A thought flashed in me and was telling myself
If such a thoughtful guidance from a beautiful girl
Is forthcoming
I do not mind being a blind