Soman Ragavan

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Enough is enough.

You have had it too good

For too long.

You are at the wrong shop.

Go and flash it elsewhere.

We should have come down

Sooner on this nonsense.

 

Please, please,

Don’t you understand ?...

This is great stuff,

Greater than others here,

Can’t you see that ?...

 

What be my fault ?

For not falling in line,

Dishing out exactly what others do ?...

This stuff is great, believe me.

Others don’t come even near it…

 

No way !

Out you go !

Pedantic stuff,

Self-flattery have no place here.

Push off !

 

Ah, I thought here I had found refuge,

But I was mistaken

By the look of it…

So be it : ‘tis quite sad…

I have to stick to the other place,

That drives a hard bargain

But still offers more freedom…

 

 

Ah, a cruel dagger

Dug into my forlorn side

As narrat’d by this poetry :

For, this be yet poetic…

 

Still I plod on,

Yes, still I plod on…

 

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 15 November, 2023