(From my poetry
collection 'The Nameless Avenue')
Do tunnels have a dialogue with eternity?
Eternity
prone to fix
extra
fittings into
the
entrance and
exit
of every tunnel.
It
resembles
a
reminder of
how
we come and
how
we go.
Tunnel
signals for more cravings;
at
the entrance and heaves up
dejections
at the exit
allowing
petty concessions.
You
can hug, caress
offer and share
as
many flighty kisses
as
the distance and
your
companion yields to.
Yet it's hard to avoid
the despair generated
by the roar of the locomotive
and
rhythm of the wheels
May
be the hoot of the
driver’s
whistle foretells,
of
promised light
reaching
nearer.
A
tunnel wriggles through
the hose named hope,
having
double holes
and
double ends.
A
tunnel does actually
connect
and disconnect
us
with a meaning,
nearer
something
to
nothing.
Vaiyavan
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