Ganga Sagar Mela Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The ramshackle buses
Going to the Sagar islands
With the old, weak and shrunken
Men and women
During Makar Sankranti.

Decrepit old men and women
As pilgrims, pious devotees
Going to the Sagar islands
In ramshackle buses
To get rid of sins

But not sure of the journey end,
How far-off the pilgrimage
To be undertaken
To reach the mythical Sagar islands
With the Kapil Muni Ashrama?

The old men holding faith
In strict confidence,
Beating the shivering cold,
Fog and mist,
Blanketing themselves

Going to the Sagar islands,
The Kapil Muni Ashrama
As for a holy dip and penance
Which King Bhagirath did for the Sagar sons,
The old men shrivelled and wrinkled.