road safety rhyme

(to be sung to the tune of ‘Row, row, row your boat’)

Ride, ride, ride your bike

gently down the road

wear it, wear it, wear it, wear it,

helmet is not a load!

Drive, drive, drive your car

gently up the slope

strap it, strap it, strap it, strap it,

seat belt is safety rope!

Ferry, ferry, ferry your bus

gently by the school

carefully, carefully, carefully, carefully,

Don’t be a killer tool!

Run, run, run your truck

gently round the curve 

steadily, steadily, steadily, steadily,

don’t crash after the swerve!

Move, move, move along

gently down the lane

safely, safely, safely, safely,

life needs no needless pain!

~ Pravin Sabnis

4 April 2018

Back to Dust

The dust is back 

rising like a black cloud

Their steps are stomping
threatening to lay a shroud…

A shroud onto our land
amidst claims that are insane

Assailants are playing victims
and pretending to be in pain…

Pretence of imagined pain
at the bloody raider’s behest
who wants to have another go
and repeat his dirty dig fest…

The deep dirty pits dug

Have turned sucker hovels
That suck the ground of water
putting flora and fauna to shovel…

The shovel also fells fields
leaving the honest farmer to cry
The gluttony of the raiders
will not stop till all here will die…

When all here will die

They will find another place

To excavate once again

Till ore and earth is out of trace…

Till earth is out of trace…

The stooges will lay siege again

The dust will keep rising

as we play blind to the drain!

We play blind, mute and lame

And bolster the rogue’s bust

Till we do not step out together

We will die of the deadly dust!

We will die of the deadly dust!

Pravin Sabnis

19 March 2018