Shishir Gupta Poet Free verse

Unnoticed Death of a Beggar

The roads were deserted and the night dark,
The dogs roamed randomly as you heard them bark,
It was cold as if bones would stiffen and break,
Everybody seemed inside safe not willing for any move to make,
I was out in the open with skin shivering white,
My clothes were few and torn as I held them tight,
I had not eaten for two or more days,
And yes the street dogs were behind me on full bay,
I hurried along the cold and desolate concrete cast,
As they closed in on me fast,
I began to run against the cold wind blast,
As I ran they too hastened behind,
Their open ajar mouths and glistening canines no longer looking kind,
I knew they would catch on with my pants,
However fast I ran with gasping pant,
Their howls were growing louder and nearer,
I knew them to ruthless with powers for a perfect shear,
Perhaps they had also not eaten for time,
Like I had not in the absence of even a single dime,
As I thought of climbing some height,
A sharp canine sunk in behind forming a painful bite,
Soon there was another and another,
Now down and feeble with hunger I saw them around me in a gather,
As they cracked, barked and sunk in me,
I lost sense and allowed me to be just be,
I do not know as I write this if I am alive,
Probably death has just struck me for sure making its attempt five,
Earlier four I had escaped its fatal dagger,
The day is dawning and people moving and moving things,
I cannot see myself among them,
As my dead carcass lie there in a pool of bloody scum,
I am now sure its an unnoticed death of another beggar.

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