Vista

Walking doThe wn the crowded road

In his reverie

The man realises

He had built more castles in the air than on this sphere.

It dawns on him

The road had defied him

And had not taken him

Where he chose to be

His thoughts well read by the road

The road defends

It was you who never left the deluded streets

You were too timid to walk alone.

You never took a plunge

to see an endless vista stretched ahead of me.

Bio

Waheeda Hussain is a blogger and a bilingual poet from Jabalpur, India.  She is a Senior School teacher by profession (for more than twenty-three years) and has a passion for writing short stories and poetry. Her dream of social justice and equality for women reflects strongly in her poems; she believes that literature can play an important role in bringing awareness on issues like Domestic Violence and Female Foeticide. She has co-authored nine anthologies and her poems have been published in many ezines. She is an editor of bilingual anthology “Shajar Ke Chaon Tale- The Poets Scribbles’ and Brahmand an e. magazine.