The Directions Speed Takes

Speed shakes the line between
the lights rooting their shapes
and the shadows that imitate
the beginning from the end.

Slow down! We already reached
where we would live a life
we are meant to lead. Slow down.
It is our midlife crisis.

The lanes hiss. The signals blink.
Fogsome night coils a carol
for the fag-end of the month.
Corde natus ex Parentis. I murmur.

-Kushal Poddar