So much excitement over a bus ride <br />Had experiences though in my teens <br />Long after now from northern side <br />Madurai to Nellai southward on wheels <br /> <br />Colourfully odoured the bus-terminus at Madurai <br />Trying a faster pace myself behind husband <br />Roamed around sufficiently the many sundry <br />Caught the bus finally, me in pushed <br /> <br />Almost a bare bus.Thanked God <br />Possibly my teen bus was now stale <br />However felt jolly; Hubby too did <br />After decades old couple enjoying quite hale <br /> <br />The running bus metrically jolted us <br />Lapping meteoric curvetures shortly curtly <br />My musical mind enjoyed the meters <br />Hubby, his usual self of berating loudly <br /> <br />My usual self shirked him <br />Slicked a little aside <br />Evening crept in with a prayer hymn <br />Hubby, dozed with a slight slide <br /> <br />Night came yet not our destination <br />Started counting the stars seen out <br />Slowly fell asleep dreams woven <br />So far nowhere did the bus halt <br /> <br />Steadily whirred and whirred <br />Somewhere at the depth were we asleep <br />A sudden break, a sonorous horn stirred <br />Kovilpatti did the bus stop <br /> <br />There did I first fuss disturbed <br />Nudged me a vendor with a cut cucumber <br />' Nothing has yet changed 'I opined <br />'Since my teen time older' <br /> <br />Civics cremated by those vendors <br />Better to be cautious not to be diseased <br />Hubby got out of the bus <br />Just to be uncaged a while indeed <br /> <br />Our trip intermitted only once just <br />Happy hubby couldn't get out often <br />Lest would be mine a pulsating heart <br />Waiting in search off and on <br /> <br />So was our rare experience <br />Like some people sometimes try out <br />'A sovereign thrill of one's independence' <br />Safe at our Nellai such we felt<br /><br />Indira Renganathan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/madurai-to-nellai-by-bus/
