Sun Soliloquies....

So many of my blogger friends participate in something called Skywatch Friday, and post wonderful pictures from around the world.

Closer to home, we have Magiceye, who revels in the Mumbai skies. For more of his work, check here.

One such, a disturbed setting sun, as seen from Bandra East.

(Bandra is a northern suburb of Mumbai, off Mumbai's western coastline, where much development is happening, in the form of Sea Link Bridges for the higher motoring classes, and Skywalks on the east side for the hoi-polloi. Much below, people continue to get their little joys from sitting on the rocks near the sea, or watching the trains zoom around, as they sit outside their one room tenements, while some others toast each other with champagne and crib about the airconditioning....)


(photograph by magiceye/damembal)
Peering wishfully,
from above the
dusty trees,
staying put
in the sky,
filled
with dark foreboding,
He watches
the empty
Bandra East skywalk,
the gutted slums below,
humanity
pouring out
of stuffed trains,
and then wonders
about
the
San Francisco clone
Sea link,
where paid travels
in four swanky wheels
are OK,
but pedestrians
on two feet
are barred;
and
a city
where
hi fi
mingling
and entangling,
in
entry fee clubs
is applauded,
but
two,
out to
meet each other
in
their only open space
on the rocks,
cause an arrest.

He looks
upward at the sky,
moving away
from
the threatening clouds.

A last glance over the trees,
and its time to drown
the depression
in the salty
waters,
to try again
tomorrow...