Musings of a Blind Man
Can I walk the roads alone ?
Why am I this scared ?
Do I fear torture
Or pain ?
What if I fall down ?
What am I doing now ?
Is it better to live alone
Walk alone
Aware that peril beckons
When you walk alone on the road
Braced for it.. and careful enough ?
Or seek help from the company
Ok…let me travel a bit
To a country with nice, friendly people
They all take so much care…
But when it comes to helping me cross the
Road… why aren’t they helping me ?
Oh… I’m not the only blind man here…
They can’t see me….
Oh…
What do I do now ?
Ah…let me go to my own land
And seek help
They are not blind
They’ll see me
And help me
So, I go…
On my way
I have a dream…
I walk the road
People willingly hold my hand
Walk me down the road
I tell myself happily… “why didn’t I come here earlier ?”
Half way down the road
Heavy traffic
And the effluvium
Suffocating me
Suffocating my helper too
He runs away
I wonder
He probably is getting
Too affected by the fumes….
Or… doesn’t he like my hand ?
My perfume ?
My smell ? …
What did I do ? …
I hear a kingsized motorbike…
“hello there.. how are you doing ?”
“you know that if you are found on the
middle of the road, you shall die”
I splutter… “but..i am blind…”
“Blind…and you crossed half
the distance…who are you kidding ?”
“Where’s my gun ?…”
S I L E N C E
I thought I was just blind
Now I couldn’t hear anything
I couldn’t smell anything
Not even my favourite perfume
The one that I was wearing that day
Hey… I couldn’t think…
How wonderful my friends would say…
The blind guys’ uninformed talk…
But somewhere in that deep sleep, I realized that my dream was reality…
For neither can I see a dream nor reality…
Everything is…
Blind men realize it half the way down…
And pay a heavy price…
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