THE DOG'S YELLING AT THE HEART CLINIC

It's been almost T-W-E-N-T-Y years of our visiting,

To the Heart Clinic for fatherly heart's healing.

The doctor was and is an expert of hearts  but heartlessly,

Proclaim'd life saviour like Him but milked mercilessly.

Father had and still has a five fathom deep cardio core,

Filled up to brim with care, compassion, love but with a door.

He burnt his will and body to make us learn to live.

He sold his brawn and brain from dawn to dusk to give.

Still at his E-I-G-H-T-Y, he paddles to earn his bread,

' I'll not be a burden on any seven of you ,' he said.

I, a student of humanities, was and am much worried,

About his heavenly heart 'cause of my curriculum's birdseed.

He almost cycled around the earth trillion times, 

To bring morsels to feed and to pay for English rhymes.

I was the second last child to witness his dying struggle.

Was his fortune jailed with the charge of bread smuggle?

Once, while squeezing a giant rock to buy the light mountain,

A devilous lightning thunder attack'd his vessel fountain.

It chok'd him and block'd his vessel with unbearable angina,

He whirled in the dust, smothering and dying like a myna.

He was roughly rush'd to the nearby private hospital,

The doctor touch'd his feet and transferr'd him to district capital.

Sorbitrate 5 mg was placed under his trembling tongue,

We reach'd the bargaining clinic and the life and the pocket was hung.

The self-styled god, prescribed all the tests that he had.

The crying members were driven out of the clinic like a chained mad.

A plump dog with a golden chain bark'd at us for patience

As the dying was our living god but for him just a patient.

Our pockets were kill'd but with mercy and Pa began his telling.

That's how the treatment start'd with the dog's yelling.

The dog was hire'd not for biting but for milking.

He was smarter as he married his daughter.

Hence his cunningness harm'd the egoistic and greedy doctor.

Now the dog's yelling is on and on but longer than long.

He is burden'd with puppies so his yelling is stronger than strong.

by Rajneesh Kumar Mishra