Wheelchair Whammy

No broken spine, no fractured femurs

No Parkinson, no torn ligaments

Not paralyzed from the waist down   

Why this guy needs   Wheel chair

Hopefully co passengers wonder            

         I was sitting in numb despair.                                                                   

For the physically disabled young and old

For super senior citizens week and tired

who needed it the most I used to pity

I never thought I will need it at sixty

My impaired heart made it necessity

Watched  those did not need at ninety

Envied them for being  hale and hearty.

Alas! now I became an object of pity

All along the corridors in airport

When my beloved walked as an escort

Guilt of being privileged haunted me most

Wheel Chair was my constant blight

Felt public mocking at my plight

Sensed people stare at me curse me

Since I was short circuiting the queue.

Remembered the life of great intellect

Stephan Hawking the physicist, cosmologist

Paralysed due to motor neuron disease

Who mesmerized with his thoughts on universe

Spent the entire life   in wheel chair                                         

What’s so great for me to spend few hours

 Moving in airport walkway corridors.

                                 …………Narayan Gadagkar