A Farmer's Suicide Note.

       A Farmer’s Suicide Note.

The cracks in my land widened,

Shrinking my hopes of survival.

The deepening dryness on a daily rate,

Heightened my fears of the future,

As if a knife was piercing through my gullet.

Let down more by debts, than by the monsoon,

Unnerved more by my protectors’ pretences

Than by the door- closing water holders,

How long could my saliva quench my thirst?

When the empty plates mocked at my defeat

To produce and prosper, my culture crumbled.

I mustered strength to silence my breath;

I found the road to the morgue smoother

Than the strenuous pathway to my fallow field.

Not that I failed to cultivate and cull out a life.

But these days killing is easier than tilling.

Those who claimed that I should own my life

Lose their voice to question my right to retrieve

A soul left in the lurch in tomb like caverns,

Crying for help, with SOS mails discarded.

I had to choose between the hailing Hades

And the crippled Cauvery and I made it perfect.

Is not a suicide  worthier than soulless living?

                                                                   P.Chandrasekaran.

A Call Girl's Aside

                   

               I am like a reusable roadside litter bin,

          Where men dump their vulgar spirit in;

          Vigorously they play their indoor games,

          Without registering their given names.

          Never do I recall any of their fragile faces

          Fleeting as they are, fixing their grimaces.

          Forms of men come and go in my dreams

          Like a crumbled structure’s broken beams.

          I have to act in a series of robotic romance

          Behaving as if I was, in an unending trance.

          Men come to see me just as a trunk less form

          Pushing my thoughts into a traumatic storm.

          Missed calls always abound in my mobile phone

          As I lie days and nights, like a lifeless cold stone.

                                                                         P.Chandrasekaran