Ode To Fans In The Compartment Poem by Mohd Arshad

Friends are heroes
Visible and invisible
Sung and unsung
And some of them
Like stars
Rise out of the blue

I find mine in the compartment
Long in the tooth
Undressed and untidy
And subject to stitches

Our loyal guards
Keep a tab on
Our movements
Laughter and gossip

Our relatives
Blow our perspiration away

Our cemented roof
Streathens our shelter

Forgotten and abandoned
Still our best companions