Suburban Thoughts.

           Suburban Thoughts.

   Expansion is both a symptom and sequel,

   Like the swelling traced in a body.

  Cities expand at the cost of their neighborhood.

  The highway lanes expand, for making many an exit.

  The vertical expansions are for 'high living' 

  And skipping suffocating stop overs, while moving.

''Either till the soil or kill it, to make sites for realtors

  Or the industry lords'' say the land acquisition lobbies. 

  Resources are meant for distribution, is their logic .

  Plantation of saplings is meant only for posterity.

  Benefit someone to provide the shade, shifting the trees.

  The size of the new shade will of course belong to those

  Who know to survive better than the deprived.

  Riches grow for some because they know,

  How to surgically remove  for a cause,

  The swelling in others, calling it a disease symptom.

  Ethically speaking, encroachment is good

  For creating growing neighborhoods.

  A good neighbor is one who knows, by all means,

  To fend for himself  without mending his fences.

  A burgeoning neighbourhood is that 

  Which brings down the vanity of soil lovers,

  Rusting with their rural belongings, of road ridden tractors,

  Transporting thoughts of simple living and high thinking.

  ''Let the floors remain where they are'' echo the suburban voices;

  ''The carpets will take care of the whole show''.

                                                            P.Chandrasekaran.