HIGHWAY
Every moment, a moment of trial for you
With atrocities on your elongated body
Along and across boundaries
You are the veins and arteries
Of body politic in your ceaseless flow
To end all our worries
Of reaching out to 
aspirations and dreams
flowing in nations’ chequered blood sstreams ;
nurturing happiness for millions
but clashing, cracking hopes of many
before they become martyrs to your metallic mould--
your cautions didn’t impact them
nor your rumblers detract them from break-neck speeds
your magnanimity couldn’t stop them from all black deeds;
their destiny blocked on their way to destination
and we pride being a high-tech civilization !!!

copyrighted :saroj kumar padhi
9.15 /02. 06.2014