From stinky drain water
Left over rotten stuff
to milk, biscuits and chicken bones
From bed of dusty straws to
Cloth covered coir
Siku
Rose from slums to a house
Wore a coloured belt round his neck
And a copper coated shining leash
I thought
It was enough for a dog to make a life.
Yet when unleashed,
he rushed to the streets
I whipped to bring him back
To straighten the tail that is bent.
What is there, in the streets
Straying here and there,
I ponder and ponder...
My Siku has a simple reaction
He shakes his tail
Like a ply card of dream demand.
Appealing for a round,
I unleash the guy
To whip him later to my concrete cage
I call house.
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