A Metro Diary Poem by Rajdeep Dhanuka

'Next station is...'

His phone rang.

Once a name on his speed dial.

'Hello! Where are you? '

He was in the metro.

'Look behind you.'

He tried not to expect
as he turned.

And there she stood...

'How are you? ' she asked
the face she had known inside out.

He replied.

'How are you? ' she asked
a person, she would claim,
she knew all about.

He reaffirmed.

'How, really, are you? ' she ask
the friend she had lost,
in a different city.



The train would carry them
through the tunnel of limbo...

But the doors opened.

He had to get down at the 'next station...'