(From my poetry collection 'The Nameless Avenue')
Horsepower
Horses
denote power
But
power never substitutes horse
though
it kicks more powerfully
than
a horse
People harness power with horse
to
run their water pumps
for
sucking out water
from
their agonic wells
Velako
witness the hiccup
of
the kicking pumps
echoing
the grief of drying up wells
They
have pumps
They
have motors
measured
by horsepower
as
they don’t have water
their
horse loses power
looking higher up
with
no complaints to
any
bloody God , they
go
to switch off
all
the hopes for a while.
Come
on it’s the way
of
horse-powered living.
Vaiyavan
.
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