I am the one who is loved by my family
blessed with a caring wife
and an adorable son
My son is just an year old
I get refreshed with his warming smile
Life is so beautiful
and precious
With one collission
it changed
Once I opened my eyes
found myself near
the tyres of truck
I was lying on the enfeebling road
and my eyes were
asking for help
nobody came to me
the humanity was dying on the road
After 3 hours police called my closed ones
not a single drop of blood
visible on my body
not even a scratch
but something beyond was troubling me
I could not breathe
something was pressing upon
I was taken to the hospital
but the hospitals were refering the case
taking support from oxygen
lying on stretchure in ambulance
My body was hurting
aching
my breathe was leaving my body
waiting in ambulance
for life
flashes of my son and wife was repeating in front of my eyes.
They need me and I needed more breath
to reach the hospital where I could get life
Life was never that important to me
Voices were fading
breathing was breaking
heart beat stopped
I am no more
but left my loved ones
crying
nobody can fill that Vacuum I created
I left a few questions to all those who pulled life from me:
1] Why did nobody bothered to save my life when I was dying on road?
2] Why did the hospital not equipped and try to save people when they need it most?
speechless:( v sad
ReplyDeletepeople are least bother about whats happening around them ..just busy with there lives
Aww..that was one touchy poem.
ReplyDeleteIt happens Pratibha. I have known a person to loose his life because help did not arrive in time..worst thing was someone stole his watch and wallet from the site of accident....hate to even think how can one fall to such low..
Dear Doc
ReplyDeleteIt is dreadful but your writing is superb.
You have raised valid questions, I know why it is so in India but I dont see any solution..I recall many decades back i had taken a dying accident victim to the hospital and the police caught me with charges that I might have hit the person...and I was made to sit at the police station for hours...sick...
But I can say, in Calcutta and Bombay people still take accident victims to hospital...but rarely or never in Delhi.
In spite of supreme court order still hospitals refuse to treat until the police come.
Anyway ...
Will look forward to more writing from you
Have a nice day and Happy New year
tragic
ReplyDelete@geeta-yes people are just racing for nothing.
ReplyDelete@Always happy-thanks dear for the appreciation.Stealing belongings of dying person-pathetic!
ReplyDelete@Ushnish Ghosh sir-thanks for the your encouraging comment.
ReplyDeleteI know people avoid to indulge in matters where police is involved and sometimes its our law and order which is pushing humanity to the back seat.
Awareness is generating at the cost of lives.
The world has become so mechanical, we have no time for others. So are those others to us. Hard to believe but that is the reality.
ReplyDeleteYou have very aptly brought out the agony and expectations of a person dangling between life & death.
ReplyDelete//I am no more
ReplyDeletebut left my loved ones crying
nobody can fill that Vacuum I created//
Words slam deep and ugly silence of our Conscience when it ought not to, Pratibha..!
Actually our deafness and dumbness kill much the dying persons than the agony they undergo. Shame on us..!
This is no way to die....Every year newspapers print road accidents as mere statistics, how many of us spare a thought for the devastated families that were left behind.
ReplyDeleteThis is too bad. The way the things are it will not get better.
ReplyDeleteheart breaking. i remember a friend of mine who lost her father in a road accident and reading this poem i could completely relate to her family's plight :(
ReplyDeletev need to be more compassionate to the people around...
sarah
we need to be jplted like this at times..with poetry about grave issues too..thanks
ReplyDeleteIt's been high time since we get done with the 'chalta hai' attiude. Very well emoted:)
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful, very touching. I like how the simple language enhances the impact. Keep writing. :)
ReplyDeletePratibha! Really touched ....! I had road accident last yr and i was trying to shout for help..but ppl didn't come for some time.....finally i cudn't shout and preyed to God.....ya! then some ppl came and helped! Fortunately my condition was not that serious..yOu really expressed all those feelings and my experience!
ReplyDelete@magiceye and mohan-yes this is reality.
ReplyDelete@Shri Ram Ayyangar sir-Thanks Sir.
ReplyDelete@Sathish-yes very true our deafness and dumbness depicts humanity is dying these days.
@Purba-thats very true indeed.
ReplyDelete@Rajesh-can't deny that.
@Sarha-this post is actually dedicated to those who faced these kinds of accidents and just trying to enact what they might have felt through this poem.
ReplyDeletethats very sad your friend lost her father and may god give strength to her family.
thanks Nehha and Maitreyi and welcome to my blog.
ReplyDelete@Sakhi shah-thanks for the inspiring words.
ReplyDelete2Mohini-thats s really sad that you had such an accident where people were deaf and dumb.
Touching... very well written!
ReplyDeletePowerful. Very emotional too.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the visit, and for your kind words.
Thanks Marinella.
ReplyDelete@Ode to Motherhood-Thanks for your kind words and visit on my blog.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad...
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