Peeping Words

Suburbs In My Mind

As I walk in the morning sun

Under its sweltering rays

I get myself thinking on

How it must be in olden days

To walk along a milieu vast

To witness radiant rays

To see a thrill run in me

Which is why my body says,

“Go on walking little legs

To roads unknown and wild

To ancient and to willing lands

To lands that are exiled!"

For city I dwell is highly tamed

With wilderness no more,

Mechanical order herein chants

A dreary humdrum lore,

So, like an ecstatic ant, I walk

To suburbs in my mind

For mind it is that travels well

To wilderness left behind!

©Mansi Karna.