Debjani Mitra Poet Verse

Driver of Victory

A fast drive through highway 
speeds a country landscape. 
Music blares loud, gliding on wheels,
with windows down, worries dwindle.

A fantasy flies in a pastel sky.    
A bottle of soda opens
a cocktail of champagne,
to drive off that bridge on to that lake...
to slip over that cliff on to that water.

Grip of steering wheel  maneuvers 
zigzag chasms of adulterated dreams.
Skidding sideways on jagged stones,
lightless lanes, murky headlights dim. 
Rules of traffic and chasing police,
fine for parking and driving wrong side.
Potholed roads in ramp of Life's ride,
Love sits close on left and behind. 

Journey of survival is a Driver of Victory, 
Rear view and Windshield to see along,
till a Red Light says, Stop, you've won it all.  



Dated 14th June 2019


Sponsor	Julia Ward
Contest -Driver of Victory

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Line Gauthier July 2, 2019 at 5:07 PM Congrats on your win, Debjani. Well done.

Julia Ward June 26, 2019 at 11:18 AM You conveyed the sense of speed admirably. Well done for your poem's placement in my contest.