New Years Day Poem by Rajkumar Mukherjee

New Years’ Day


I’m tied up in the middle of the square,
Roads leading to East, West, North and South;
I’m perplexed to decide which way to follow,
Most of them have proved to be hollow.

Traffic running fast along their lanes,
Some of them whistling past with siren;
The cop came running asked me where to go,
I told him I forgot where from I came;

Tell me why the people are racing with cars?
Why the footpaths running instead of roads?
Don’t you know today is New Years Day?
I realized when a thin hand ask me to pay.

Coz he has no food for days together,
Coz he has no shelter over his head,
At ten he has to look after his sister,
What date it is why should we bother?

Rajkumar@Kolkata
15-04-2009