Writing The Script For Others Poem by DrTP Sasikumar

One evening in the temple

I heard the murmur of ladies

Who had gathered there

Their voices rising

Above the steady chant of prayers


‘Rajan should have stayed in the hostel

It is the best choice for him,

Nair could have left for Kerala

He is not comfortable here

Why should he continue to stay around? '


Nature too was not spared

‘If it would only rain' they wished

‘The chilling cold would have decreased,

The storm is fierce,

Or else the cold would not be so bitter.'


Thus they relentlessly wrote

The script for other's lives.

‘Will someone write my script too? '

I wondered. But who would tell me

What will be drafted and written for me?


All of them busy prescribing

How the other should live

But none seemed interested

In writing a simple script

For ones own splendid life.



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