Today I went to office
wearing my shoes
walking in dust and mud
standing in over-crowded bus
waiting to cross the road
reaching to the office door
then there was dust under my table
somebody asked "Was it on your shoes?"
Oh God! I never noticed it
I tried for an explanation
But I had to give the answer first
I said "yes, my shoes carried this dust."
He was stunned, asked again
"Did your shoes really carry this much dust?"
I nodded without an assuring answer
There was contempt in his eyes
I kept thinking what was wrong with me
Is walking in dust so sinful
for these "neat and clean" offices?
Why do they hide behind this modern world?
Don't they see that our background lay in dust?
Don't they see that our masses lay in dust?
Don't they see that this world is nothing but dust?
I now, try to keep my shoes off the dust
But they always get dirty in it
My life and shoes could not get away from it
Perhaps this is my destiny, the dust.
1 comment:
If you have got your shoes dirt-free than you do raise objections over other carrying dirt, after all it is the contempt that one has to face, which has made people to work hard and eliminate dirt. Of-course its not just the hard work but right opportunities aligned at the right time (Call it fate) are equally responsible for it too.
Someone who has eliminated external dirt might have have accrued lots of internal dirt which might have been a necessity for cleansing of external dirt, so no one is dirt free (apart from chosen few who might have achieved things without taking any dirty path). No one wants to point at other dirt, it is just a way to divert other's attentions towards one's own dirt.
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