Cross Roads Poem by Rajesh Kumar

Three women walked into the night
Steadily towards their hostel-gates.

Five wait with me at the crossroads
They have a different place to go.

I waited …
Watching those three walk farther away;
They were lost,
Might have reached the gates and turned in.
“Cant’ we move on, it’s so late”, said one of them.
I walked on,
In silence; wishing they would know,
That of the three, who walked the other way,
There was one who never looked my way.
And she was the reason
Why I was there.
(14th November 1997 As I walked Rekha and her friends back to their hostels)