Poetry : The Journey's End

                   The Journey's End

( This is based on a true life event which occurred at Maidan Metro station  about 20 years back and I came to know about it through  the Local News Paper.)

The little girl in a pink white frock,

Arrived from Dubai to attend a wedlock.

She glided down on feathery escalator,

what followed then  was a nightmare.

 Between  the   steps  created was a space,

The chain of escalator moved off its place.

The little girl’s head sucked  deep in the gap,

Her face being crushed she shrieked for help.

The helpless mother watched in wain,

While her Child shouted in pain.

With none of the authorities at sight,

The child died shrieking with plight.

A little switch stopped killer escalator,

Her little body was excreted later.

In the ancestral house she was visiting.

Lies her   body, her little being.

                          -        Pankaj Mala Bhattacharya