A Migrant's Ramblings

This poem talks in brief terms the rambling thoughts of a migrant worker( illiterate and poor,) given shelter in some community centre to spend his days during the period of lockdown necessitated by the spread of Corona Virus in most parts of the world. He is capable of only manual labour and totally unsophisticated. He yearns to be back where he was born, but he is held back by circumstances over which no one seems to have any control. Although he talks mainly of himself , he is concerned about

This poem is the result of having read the reportage in various dailies about the hardships suffered by the migrant workers and what they have spoken in public.

Note: Thoughts are Migrant's, the language is mine.

A Migrant's Ramblings

Thousands of miles separate me
From my home where I want to be,
O, How I crave to be home
Where once I did freely roam!

I am now confined to a small room
To keep me and others from a doom
That waits on the wings in the open
To devour...