Traveled I many a time to places and enjoyed the best things of Nature in phases,
Quite ever green in memory for days to come just to retrieve in times of desolation.
Free flying birds, ever green fields and insinuating rivers have I come across
Travelling in the train by the window side mostly during the holidays to remember!
Colourful cloudy sky, yellow sun flower lands and lukewarm sun came one after the other
In non-stop sequences before the elephant hills, ponds and sugarcane fields came.
Indeed it is a pleasant morning travel in the cloudy season with rains now and then!
In the same train in the summer time how horrible it is to travel jam packed in all coaches
Without a sigh of relief to make even a single moment!
Fixed in the seat hours together unable to relax, move and enjoy the journey it is indeed
A prison punishment for any person to venture upon!
The super fast train by the time reaches the destination the passengers lose their patience;
The conversion of metre gauge to broad gauge track is the cause for the slow pace.
But the resourceful passengers rely upon that train for the safe journey to their places!
The hot climate makes the train an oven to roast the travellers to such owes!
The clouds too keep the heat undissipated without giving any relieving sign of rains!
Indeed water is the God in the desert by experience we come to know above all things;
Yes, without water how can we dissipate the burning heat in anyway?
Yet certainly behind the sufferings of the people there is a cause in life.
The computer reservation allots seats for the passengers but not human convenience;
Happiness and comfort of the journey depend upon the adjustments among themselves;
But I know not why some don’t understand this simple truth by any means!
Is it due to politics, ethnicity, colour, caste, class, creed, race or religion?
Indeed it is incredible that India stands in unity despite such disparities!
The train, India runs on the same track carrying all these diversities in unity!
Still the slaves of casteism, custom and tradition don’t seem to care for decency;
So, education could be the only means to remedy this long drawback;
But many even among the educated live not culturally modern even in the new millennium
And the politicians play politics upon these and easily exploit the people always,
Which truth people should realise and reform themselves before it is too late!
People go to cool places in hot season like the umbrella they use against heat or rain;
Train travel to hill stations is indeed a pleasant memory to cherish in mind,
Rather to relax, forget or escape from tension, depression and bitter routine
Just for a brief time to breathe a sigh of relief to get strength to fight to success later!
The beautiful hill view of the plains, the smell of herbal leaves, flowers and the misty hills
Ever keep one later in a state of nostalgia amidst the weary works of the world whenever needed.
Yes, indeed it is a pleasant journey in the train to remember all those things forever and ever!