RIVER OF MUSIC

Keeping the doors and 

windows of her flat shut

falling flat on her bed

with her eyes and ears  shut

under the speeding fan running at its peak,

she made a futile attempt

to escape from the

ear-splitting wild music rocking the

metro 24X7.

She lamented to herself:

“Tormenting and agonizing

this city life

 – could I ever get

accustomed with this city life

“full of sound and fury

signifying anything”?

-          she inquired her husband

with fright in her eyes one day.

“You will have to learn to live with it”- he responded with a smile

“How come the citizens

enjoy this wild music

rocking and shaking the city each day?

who needs the  smoothly flowing river of  music 

of a new comer like her coming from

from s faraway village...................?

with butterflies in her stomach

she was asking herself……………………