Get Your Premium Membership

Talking To the Station

When I'm quiet, I talk the most I talk to the trees, I talk to the wind, I talk to the invisible hand that caresses my body when I'm thinking I talk to the random wife Tell her to shed the skin of endurance and evolve I talk to the naked beggar Tell him to jump off the bridge if he really is so needy I talk to the young couple Tell them to hold hands and wonder if they fit like a puzzle I sometimes talk to the roaches in the railway station Afraid and amused,they stare back with remorse As if they know what I'm trying to say What am I trying to say? I talk when I'm the most quiet The whole world is saying a story No one is reading it Every one is ripping the pages apart, Stomping them in a fit of merrymaking Sometimes in an ocean of faces I hear another quiet soul or two A fleeting moment of exchange of exhilaration We wander with backpacks and no purpose How easily I cross paths of nomads who talk like me If only I could stop them and REALLY talk.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 4/9/2016 12:24:00 AM
With how balls-to-the-wall you are with what you say to wife, the beggar, and the couple, I would think you could use a taste of your own medicine if all you want is to actually talk to a stranger who might feel the same way you do. But hey, we all need work. A few things in this poem, for example - "jump off a bridge", "fit like a puzzle" and "evolve" all either seem cliche, bulky/obtuse, or just unwieldy. Also, if the world is "saying" a story, you wouldn't read it you would listen or hear it
Login to Reply
Roy Avatar
Iman Roy
Date: 4/9/2016 12:39:00 AM
Hi Cameron. I truly appreciate your feedback. I like the fact that you noticed the world is saying and reading contradiction... But well I don't change what I write once... My poems are never perfect. Another thing the station is setup on an Indian city...where wives appear with veils ...beggars scorn if we don't give them money and couples..let's ignore that. So maybe that's why I wanted to write more about doing than just accepting reality. But I appreciate your feedback. I hope you can relate to any other which I have written or will write. Best wishes.
Date: 4/9/2016 12:09:00 AM
Exactly. Many of us feel like you but cannot say in that beautiful way which is genuine poetry...
Login to Reply
Roy Avatar
Iman Roy
Date: 4/9/2016 12:40:00 AM
Thank you for the appreciation... The world is beautiful

Book: Reflection on the Important Things