VACANT SPACE
Abdul Rashid Bijapure
Even
on a breezeless day
Keep
ajar the windows.
What
better thing than
The
noble ideas absorbed?
Yet,
returned the crestfallen.
He
who had gleaned
Quote
a few aphorisms
So
badly needed by them.
The
world full of sounds.
Their
heads he found
Filled
with the vital things
Facts,
lies, beliefs and dogmas
Pressing
the ear-drums from within.
No
music could enter now.
Sometimes,
from somewhere
Something
nobler might
descend
Which
They
could have welcomed.
And he would have liked
to
find
Just a little vacant space.