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Dear City You Have Many Constants Hidden In You #Poetry #DailyPrompt

Posted on the 20 February 2018 by Jaideep Khanduja @PebbleInWaters

Dear City, You have many constants hidden in your heart

timelessly growing you & me, and everybody else old (and wise?)

Old, I am sure. Wise, I am unsure.

Why I am unsure about connection or relation between

those constants and wisdom is because

those are senseless, most of them.

So, how can they increase my (or for that sake anybody)

wisdom?

For years, we are echoing the constant background noise of you.

Everybody is fed up with this noise yet everybody contributes to it.

People while driving talk with the horns or their vehicles.

Every few seconds they will honk the horn. As if,

it is replying to some of their questions. And then yet again.

And again.

As long as a vehicle is running, the horn keeps honking endlessly.

Without a purpose, Without a sense. Almost nonsense.

And on top of that, the one who is driving and not honking horn

is a misfit. That everybody honking feels.

After all, wise have no right to live in the city of foolish.

Dear City You Have Many Constants Hidden In You #Poetry #DailyPromptPhoto credit: Jose Luis Mieza Photography on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-SA

Dear City, the condition of struggle remains a constant.

For instance, everybody hates crime, accident, robbery, rape, kidnapping

Hate to the extent of reaction while reading a story in the newspaper

or watching a news item.

Nothing beyond that. Everybody is so cool and relaxed.

Every mind here works at a constant speed.

Everybody dares to react. Nobody cares to act.

Act a right time and right place.

Dear City When Will You Mature

At the time of incident, everybody becomes a spectator

As if some interesting movie is running

And everybody is discussing vigorously

about who and what without caring about

the blood on the road, broken cars, rape, victim.

Everybody, in fact, is a constant friend of you.

As dead as you.

As wise as you.

Will you wake up ever from your constant sleep, Dear City?

Constant


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