Trains!
India's moving villages.
People moot dialogues,
talk and depart
Often full of chaos
and conversations.
Sometimes, music.
Otherwise, merely
Cacophony.

Trains!
Temporary communities
From family history
To present polity,
Conversations in compartments.
Soothing, mostly.
Sometimes, controversial.
Exercise care
Lynch mobs everywhere.

Trains!
Carry tales.
Urban legends
In locomotion.
Some are stories of arrival.
Others are fables of departure.
A few travellers have neither;
their journey becomes but a saga.

Saravanan