All the World and his Wife
K. Radhakumar *
The sun shines on the pond;
The wind makes little waves
And the waves dance and sparkle.
It is a pattern of small, twisting curves
Like a thousand small snakes swimming
And swimming for the first time
In the water of life.
The waves dance
To-the music of the sunshine
Mellowed at this hour of the day.
The tree tops sway;
Little birds nesting there sing.
The light wind and the leaves!
He pulls her hair and smiles at her
And she smiles back.
It is not hard to open up now
And the leaves dance and flutter.
On the other side of the pond
There lives an obscenely rich couple,
A team of quarrelsome husband and wife.
They quarrel about money
About food not properly cooked
About anything;
They quarrel all the time.
The wife screams a string of obscenities
At her drunken husband
And the drunken man
Often beats his shrew of a wife.
A small bird stops singing and wonders
If the world is a fit place for her to live.
The fearsome snakes are not beautiful
But the wavelets are, she wonders.
* Poem written by K. Radhakumar which was published at The Sangai Express
This poem was webcasted on June 05, 2018.
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