Live And Let Live Poem by DR KUSUMITA MUKHERJEE

Does your world change if the music ceases?
Do you even notice?
May be you do.
But your busy mind won't let you ponder.
Got to get things done,
Meet deadlines.

Where is the time to stop and reflect?
Anyway it's an unending parade.
So who cares if the beggar does not stop by your door?
Or the dog that was limping and mewling last week?
Even that unearthly howl.
That woman…what a poor sight she was.
Incessant wailing.

Now the path is bare.
Forsaken by the undesirables.
The forgotten ones who have chosen to forget this place.
This street fares as well as ever
Left alone to its insensitivity.