The Cinema Halls Lie They Empty & Deserted Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The cinema halls
With the walkies-talkie photos
Of coloured and painted men and women
Depicted as heroes and heroines
Touching the heart emotionally
Lie they deserted and left by
The audience
Comfortable at homes
With the television set and the discs
Of the theatres.

The cinema palaces and halls lie they
Empty and deserted
With the stray dogs sleeping over
The campus or in the courtyard,
The reel man, the light man lying jobless,
The flash light is gone
With its specific focus
And the loafers sitting close to
Whistling not,
Throwing coins, thinking heroes.