It Happened All of a Sudden
It happened all of a sudden
My own village outgrowing its own space
With its sun bathing golden paddy spikes gone for good
Usurped as they are by the murky canopies of rubber trees
A second hand substitute with a sky high profit line
Through which a speckled sun peeps down
On fields which were once free of fleas and ticks
Whose air grew a thousand butterfly fingers
To caress you to a new life
And which is now home for midges and mosquitoes
Sinking fast hostile barbs into your same-same flesh
That but flinches though immune to pin pricks
Uncured as they are of avarice.
Copyright © S.Jagathsimhan Nair | Year Posted 2011
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