In A Clinic

An aquarium Some benches And a heart-shaped clock Hanging half way down The wall of purple And just above the door Beside a flower vase a TV Tuned to take your mind For a while off gloom and dejection, Moving silently Towards nine In a seemingly drowsy evening And we were sitting Occasionally staring at each other Waiting to be called in And when my turn came I forgot what I was ailing from I saw some going with breath And came out breathless And some with no breath And came out full of breath And that aquarium with rocks and plants Watching fish swim back and forth And the gurgling sound of the bubbles And the colors of fish and backdrop All but seemed I was beside the beach And watching the waves roll on my feet And the sound filled my ear with music Of the rolling surf pounding the beach As if my therapeutic Yet I strolled in attending the query of doctor "Sir, I forget yet I remember In deep sleep I dreamed of dying Of breathlessness and I woke up in panic Only to find this world beside me Weeping unconsolingly Being inebriated of so much toxin In soil, water and air" "Oh my dear friend murmured the doctor You forget you are resting On the capital's bosom of your country"