SOTIE TO TRAINS (Poetry)

SOTIE TO TRAINS

I just got a train,

All the passengers insane..

One says ‘true’ to what’s false

One does not know always known

The lady mutters brand new hymns

Noone gets the lyrics except her..

I just got a train,

All the passengers insane..

One says the world is pretty flat,

Once he loses all he had..

The lady says she is just a cat,

She knows what to be.. No objection..

I just got a train,

All the passengers insane..

Nobody is out of train,

All of us going insane,

We got our tickets by birth,

No way to get off before arrival..

I just got a train,

It has a lady really insane..

What people call North

She contends it is indeed South

She confuses India with Norway

She knows the truth anyway

I just got a train,

Am really going insane..

There should be a way to stop it,

Always crying doesn’t fit..

Let’s start with breaking the windows

One would respond.. Who knows?..

I just got a train,

All the conductors insane..

I will find the brakes one day

Taking that lady badly insane,

I will shift the railway,

To get a brand new train..

I’ll just get a train,

Beware all insane or sane!..

Ulaş Başar Gezgin

06.06.2002/ On the Ankara train/ Haydarpasa

Gezgin, U. B. (2007). On a Tablet – English Poems by Ulas Basar Gezgin. Lulu.

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