Rat Race

Supriya Bansal posted under PenMuse-23 Poetry on 2020-10-21



The crowd melds in a merry melee  Reckless, relentless, Ranting 'n raving,  Streams of doleful dreams, rivers of spent screams  Seeps from the seams of their pockets, unseen.  A gloss of glamour, greed glazes their eyes  A clamor of clinking coins curbs the cries  Mediocrity gets venerated  Falsity, flattery fuel you far  A pointless pursuit, an unending cruise  I sift the soot scattered on the asphalt  And bury my soul under the sidewalk  Away from prodding, pushing 'n prying  With a silken symphony of welkin I lie unruffled, till the end of time.

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