Very early in the morning <br />Still dark around nothing visible <br />I was half asleep and I heard the <br />Voice of eldest my cousin brother <br />Got a news, very painful <br />I should have cried having heard this <br />How did I manage myself, <br />I do not know even now <br />No one around knew <br />I was aware of the happening <br />He left the scene, <br />With every one crying <br />I guised fast asleep still <br />No one had the courage to wake me up <br />It all brightened, <br />Things around showing up <br />I still posing as if I was asleep <br />Sometime later came in <br />My younger cousin sister <br />Came near and woke me up <br />Said “Come home” <br />I said “Go, I will follow” <br />She left, with nothing further to say <br />I got up with no mind to see <br />Or to talk any around <br />I came out of the house <br />Stepping down each step <br />Very slowly on to a street <br />Sun shining harsh <br />From mid-way eastern horizon <br />Walked very slowly <br />Deliberately walking over the heap of <br />Sharp edged granite nuggets <br />Allowing them to hurt my bare feet <br />Crisscrossing the road <br />So that the journey home <br />Was further elongated <br />I did not have the strength <br />To look at any one <br />I walked keeping the face down <br />Looking only at my feet <br />Sweating profusely <br />Because of the hot sun up <br />But I had no intension of wiping <br />I kept on walking <br />And reached home <br />To see my pregnant mother <br />Lying dead <br />Because it was a complicated <br />Case of delivery <br />And I was at the end of <br />A journey, which I desired, never ends<br /><br />Bashyam Narayanan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-journey-which-i-desired-never-ends/
