An unclaimed key chain
An unclaimed key chain
Morning
Office goers
Busy moving
And carefully
Circumventing
A key chain
On the foot path
Seemingly afraid
Of reaching to it,
Leave alone
Of making it
Reach the person
To whom it belongs
I stood there
Watching
As I was waiting
For my bus
Me too, not in a mind
To pick it up
The three keys
On a shining ring
With a metal flat tag
With a figure of
A tiger inscribed
How many times
The keys would have
Opened or locked
The locks
How many times
It would have helped
The owner to check
His or her belongings
How much valuables
It would have
Protected
Now lying uncared for
A man would have
Stepped on it
But suddenly realized
Its presence
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poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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