Why This Distancing...? Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

I would not take the same route
For fear of meeting someone known.

The fear or objection has nothing to do
With him, or our past: nothing unpleasant

Just the fact of meeting a known person
On the morning or evening walk.

On BKC pavement or anywhere
Does not attract me and so I avoid it.

I know many feel happy to meet anyone
Who recognizes one in public, some are proud.

But why? we brothers were discussing
Last week in Chengalpattu in Temple's home.

Perhaps Dad and Mom not encouraging
Anyone to come home or us to go anywhere

Might be the reason. But Rajiv and Temple
Sang together, 'No, it is lack of money'.

I do not think so: it is not necessary
To have money to entertain or go visiting.


26.11.2013