Oh! My Dear Indian Train

Every single day in many a Indian train

The journey of a commoner is full of stress and strain

Pleasure is nowhere but the pain is now here

Ask many to adjust and extend for which no one would hear

It runs on one rule:

Once you step in you cannot step out

You are destined to witness hell inside out

Be early or be late

No savior can change your fate

Inside the train:

You can hardly place on floor both your feet

This celebration of suffocation is our everyday feat

Every little heart prays and says

Add a bogie, add a bogie

Add a bogie and keep on adding more

To transform someone’s horrible journey to be lovely travel for sure

Child in one hand and bag in the other

Throughout the travel she must bother

Not just her but many like her my sister, brother and mother

Nowhere to sit and no way to stand

Plight of helplessness one cannot understand

Every time it stops just adds and stuffs more crowd

No one would get down but clog on both ends yell loud

Neither we neither breathe in nor breathe out even a little

Yet the vendors selling songs go on and on

Timings of various trains are unpredictable

Needs and urgencies of public are unimaginable

Facilitate every traveler in righteous manner

This reflects democracy in true color

Train every train to solace

Place every passenger in right place

Enhance and extend size and space

Kindly help mankind win every day race