Highway: A poem by Renjitha Reghunath

Lost!  

Amid the temporalities 

And the burgeoning impersonal spaces

The weary man wanders…

Over the horizon, the highway beckons

Luxuriously spread out,

The tarry siren awaits the dejected traveler 

She bends, sways and curves,

 To the rhythm of the city’s destitute.                                                 

                                                                                         

Listen! 

She calls out to you,

To forget your wretched anger and miles of daily terror.

The rugged terrain unfolds like a lover…

Tempts the traveler,

To risk it all and explore,

With the silent oath

of many unstructured hours of 

glimpses into a richer elegiac world.