Apathy

She walks with a hunch
Asking something to munch
Her wrinkled face, earth brown skin
Her hand stretched out in –

Emptiness, asking relief from pain.
Looking at her with disdain
Is the man in the driver’s seat
As she bears the searing heat

And pleads, with an outstretched paw
Looking at him with an uncanny awe
With her dull, deep eyes
Asking some pennies to buy some rice

The man remains unstirred
Her weak voice remains unheard
She stifles an emergent tear
The horns’ cacophony strikes her ear

The light has changed
Wheels race ahead, as if deranged
The man too has gone
She stands there, Alone.